Fitness Technology and Exercise Engagement: How Technology Affordances Facilitate Fitness Goal Attainment
Yafang Li,
Michelle Carter,
Robert Crossler
Abstract:To realize desired health returns, fitness technology providers, users, and corporate wellness program managers need to understand how individuals' different uses of fitness technologies influence their fitness experience and fitness goal achievements. Thus, this study draws on the theory of affordances and the concept of engagement to develop and empirically test a model of fitness technology use as goal-directed behavior. Doing so highlights the relationship between trying to use fitness technologies and try… Show more
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