Does your health really benefit from using a self-tracking device? Evidence from a longitudinal randomized control trial

From panopticon to heautopticon: A new form of surveillance introduced by quantified‐self practices

“…The European Parliamentary Research Service identifies wearable technology as one of the 10 technologies that will change people's lives (Van Woensel, Archer, Panades‐Estruch, & Vrscaj, ). Wearables offer unlimited opportunities for improving human life, such as enhancing health (Barrett, Humblet, Hiatt, & Adler, ; Majmudar, Colucci, & Landman, ; Stiglbauer, Weber, & Batinic, ), boosting self‐esteem (Karapanos, Gouveia, Hassenzahl, & Forlizzi, ), preventing chronic diseases and empowering patients (Barrett et al, ; Nelson, Verhagen, & Noordzij, ). In 2018, nearly 117 million wearables were sold worldwide (Lamkin, ), with leading brands such as Fitbit and Nike+.…”

Quantified Self-Using Consumer Wearable Device: Predicting Physical and Mental Health

“…Stiglbaur et al [26] 2019 Evaluate the influence of wearable self-tracking devices on consciousness, physical health, and indicators of psychological wellbeing.…”

“…This questionnaire includes several points to describe someone's wellbeing status, including positive emotion, negative emotion, happiness, and loneliness [25]. Stiglbauer et al [26], used this tool in their longitudinal study in validating the benefits of wearable intervention for human wellbeing. An earlier study conducted by Sano et al [27], combined five different types of mental health measurement tools [28][29][30][31][32] to gather complementary data to support their observational study.…”

User Satisfaction with Wearables

“…Other studies have focused more on technology use by examining voluntary adoption (e.g., Fritz et al, 2019), the quality of the user experience (Benbunan-Fich, 2019), user mental models (Mettler & Wulf, 2019), and perceptions and use in everyday life (Rapp & Cena, 2016). Another research stream has examined the positive effects of technology use through empowerment (Nelson et al 2016) and improvements in perceived physical health (Stiglbauer et al, 2019) and the negative impacts of tracker dependency (Attig & Franke, 2019) and eventual tracker abandonment decisions (Attig & Franke, 2020). These studies have employed various methods ranging from interviews (Fritz et al 2014) to experiments (Stiglbauer et al, 2019) and surveys (Attig & Franke, 2019, 2020James et al, 2019aJames et al, , 2019b.…”

“…Another research stream has examined the positive effects of technology use through empowerment (Nelson et al 2016) and improvements in perceived physical health (Stiglbauer et al, 2019) and the negative impacts of tracker dependency (Attig & Franke, 2019) and eventual tracker abandonment decisions (Attig & Franke, 2020). These studies have employed various methods ranging from interviews (Fritz et al 2014) to experiments (Stiglbauer et al, 2019) and surveys (Attig & Franke, 2019, 2020James et al, 2019aJames et al, , 2019b. Other studies have employed qualitative techniques such as content analysis (Benbunan-Fich, 2019), diary studies (Rapp & Cena, 2016), or Q-sorting (Mettler & Wulf, 2019).…”