The social meaning of steps: user reception of a mobile health intervention on physical activity

The social grounds of self-tracking in insurance: A mixed-method approach to adoption and use

“…Details on the prototype and the interviews with prototype users can be found in a previous paper. 31 Questionnaires were gathered in august 2019 and interviews between September and December 2019. Table 2 summarises the sociodemographic information of the 44 interviewees.…”

“… 42 Its content was based on a prior round of interviews with other users of a ST tool. 31 Interviews and data analysis were done in French and German, quotations used in the article were translated by the authors. According to grounded theory principles, we stopped interviewing new subjects once data saturation was achieved, that is once additional interviews stopped providing new insights into the emerging categories.…”

“…The interview data were coded by the main author with QSR International's Nvivo 11 software, following the principles of grounded theory. 42 An initial coding sequence (open coding), based on prior research, 31 led to the identification of the following codes: impact on behaviour, reason to adopt the technology (which was composed of the codes: relation to physical activities, relation to numbers, relation to technology, relation to incentives, and health), solidarity/responsibility, limits of the application, and history of the user. We used Nvivo's cross comparison functions to perform axial and selective coding, that is, using the relations between codes to build concepts and a model.…”

Negotiating with digital self-monitoring: A qualitative study on how patients with multiple sclerosis use and experience digital self-monitoring within a scientific study

“…People are more likely to adhere to technologies in the long term when there is a "fit" between the user and the technology. For instance, Presset et al (2021), who studied the use of an activity tracker provided by a health insurance company, found a strong alignment between the material and the social, that is, between the technical features of the technology and the social values of the users, resulting in an overall acceptance of the technology. But there can be a lack of fit or a bad fit between humans and technologies, meaning that there are collisions or tensions between material and social actors, with technologies interfering with rather than facilitating people's everyday life (Pols, 2012(Pols, , 2017.…”

“…Whereas some researchers have investigated patients with chronic diseases (e.g. Danesi et al, 2020 , 2021 ), most empirical research thus far has focused on healthy people who have started using digital self-monitoring based on their own decisions and with the aim of improving their lifestyle (see, for instance, Didžiokaitė et al, 2018 ; Lupton, 2019a ; Presset et al, 2021 ; Sharon, 2017 ). At the time of writing, relatively little is known about how digital self-monitoring technologies come to matter in the everyday lives of patients with chronic diseases ( Maslen and Lupton, 2020 ; Weiner et al, 2017 ).…”