Visualizing information on watch faces: A survey with smartwatch users

Abstract

Watch battery level Calories burned Distance traveled Heart rate/ECG waveform Step count Weather info Temperature Figure 1: Smartwatch face examples (from Facer [13]) with increasing amounts of data items and representation types. From left to right: Material Volcano (BlueIceshard), Pie Charts II (Sunny Liao), Minimal Colors H (AK Watch), and Earthshade (Brad C). The graph on the right shows common pairs of data types displayed on the watch faces our 237 survey participants used.