@inproceedings{92e1fcfc4e0f42bba58f719f0faa4e60,
title = "Activity tracking: Barriers, workarounds and customisation",
abstract = "Activity trackers are increasingly popular, but they have high levels of abandonment and little evidence exists to suggest why this is. This paper explores barriers to engagement with activity trackers. We extend previous research by not only characterising the barriers users experienced, such as tracking accuracy and device aesthetics, but also by reporting the workarounds they created. We discuss implications for the design of activity tracking systems by reflecting on these workarounds, the potential for activity tracker design to help overcome existing barriers, and how customisation could play a role.",
keywords = "Activity tracking, Behaviour change, Fitness, Health, Personal informatics, Physical activity, Quantified self",
author = "Daniel Harrison and Paul Marshall and Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze and Jon Bird",
year = "2015",
month = sep,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/2750858.2805832",
language = "English",
series = "UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing",
publisher = "ACM",
pages = "617--621",
editor = "Kenji Mase and M. Langheinrich and D. Gatica-Perez and H. Gellersen and T. Choudhury and K. Yatani",
booktitle = "UbiComp 2015",
address = "United States",
note = "3rd ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2015 ; Conference date: 07-09-2015 Through 11-09-2015",
}