Social Reflections on Fitness Tracking Data

Saksono, Herman; Castaneda‐Sceppa, Carmen; Hoffman, Jessica A.; El-Nasr, Magy Seif; Morris, Vivien; Parker, Andrea G.

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300543

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Some researchers have noted that much of the research on activity-related personal informatics doesn't take into account the social network that is essential for the longer-terms success of the tracking technology [62]. Based on a 2-month study with 14 low-income families, Saksono et al outline how the current practice of using activity trackers is designed to be an individual activity, with few families engaging in social discussions of the data.…”

Section: Motivation Strategies and Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Design Exploration of Health-Related Community Displays

Gooch

Price

Klis-Davies³

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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The global population is ageing, leading to shifts in healthcare needs. It is well established that increased physical activity can improve the health and wellbeing of many older adults. However, motivation remains a prime concern. We report findings from a series of focus groups where we explored the concept of using community displays to promote physical activity to a local neighborhood. In doing so, we contribute both an understanding of the design space for community displays, as well as a discussion of the implications of our work for the broader CSCW community. We conclude that our work demonstrates the potential for developing community displays for increasing physical activity amongst older adults.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.

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Section: Motivation Strategies and Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Design Exploration of Health-Related Community Displays

Gooch

Price

Klis-Davies³

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Nevertheless, we could argue that data recorded by most activity trackers and self-monitoring applications currently is still of little value in facilitating meaningful reflection on lifestyle. In a previous study it was found that the participants from a low SES neighborhood rarely analyzed their self-monitoring experiences to derive insight about the meaning of data for their well-being ( 68 ). One example of providing meaningful data is a smoking app that displays, besides the number of days without cigarettes, also the amount of money the person has saved by not smoking.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes Toward Health, Healthcare, and eHealth of People With a Low Socioeconomic Status: A Community-Based Participatory Approach

Faber

Al-Dhahir

Reijnders

et al. 2021

Front. Digit. Health

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Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with a higher prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles compared to a high SES. Health interventions that promote a healthy lifestyle, like eHealth solutions, face limited adoption in low SES groups. To improve the adoption of eHealth interventions, their alignment with the target group's attitudes is crucial. This study investigated the attitudes of people with a low SES toward health, healthcare, and eHealth. We adopted a mixed-method community-based participatory research approach with 23 members of a community center in a low SES neighborhood in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We conducted a first set of interviews and analyzed these using a grounded theory approach resulting in a group of themes. These basic themes' representative value was validated and refined by an online questionnaire involving a different sample of 43 participants from multiple community centers in the same neighborhood. We executed three focus groups to validate and contextualize the results. We identified two general attitudes based on nine profiles toward health, healthcare, and eHealth. The first general attitude, optimistically engaged, embodied approximately half our sample and involved light-heartedness toward health, loyalty toward healthcare, and eagerness to adopt eHealth. The second general attitude, doubtfully disadvantaged, represented roughly a quarter of our sample and was related to feeling encumbered toward health, feeling disadvantaged within healthcare, and hesitance toward eHealth adoption. The resulting attitudes strengthen the knowledge of the motivation and behavior of people with low SES regarding their health. Our results indicate that negative health attitudes are not as evident as often claimed. Nevertheless, intervention developers should still be mindful of differentiating life situations, motivations, healthcare needs, and eHealth expectations. Based on our findings, we recommend eHealth should fit into the person's daily life, ensure personal communication, be perceived usable and useful, adapt its communication to literacy level and life situation, allow for meaningful self-monitoring and embody self-efficacy enhancing strategies.

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“…Technology can support only to mid-conflict solutions, but also inter-conflict reflection. Current applications demonstrate technology's versatility in representing information for social reflection [51,63,76,78]. In contrast to existing mid-conflict approaches, we posit that promoting deeper reflections in-between conflict occurrences may support the development of crucial transformative insights and approaches for handling nontrivial conflict in close relationships [11].…”

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confidence: 92%

A Change of Scenery: Transformative Insights from Retrospective VR Embodied Perspective-Taking of Conflict With a Close Other

Yong,

Cui,

Suma Rosenberg

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Close relationships are irreplaceable social resources, yet prone to high-risk conflict. Building on findings from the fields of HCI, virtual reality, and behavioral therapy, we evaluate the unexplored potential of retrospective VR-embodied perspective-taking to fundamentally influence conflict resolution in close others. We develop a biographically-accurate Retrospective Embodied Perspective-Taking system (REPT) and conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of its influence on close others' reflection and communication, compared to video-based reflection methods currently used in therapy (treatment as usual, or TAU). Our key findings provide evidence that REPT was able to significantly improve communication skills and positive sentiment of both partners during conflict, over TAU. The qualitative data also indicated that REPT surpassed basic perspective-taking by exclusively stimulating users to embody and reflect on both their own and their partner's experiences at the same level. In light of these findings, we provide implications and an agenda for social embodiment in HCI design: conceptualizing the use of 'embodied social cognition,' and envisioning socially-embodied experiences as an interactive context. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Collaborative and social computing devices; Interaction techniques; • Applied computing → Psychology.

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Social Reflections on Fitness Tracking Data

Cited by 39 publications

References 58 publications

A Design Exploration of Health-Related Community Displays

A Design Exploration of Health-Related Community Displays

Attitudes Toward Health, Healthcare, and eHealth of People With a Low Socioeconomic Status: A Community-Based Participatory Approach

A Change of Scenery: Transformative Insights from Retrospective VR Embodied Perspective-Taking of Conflict With a Close Other

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