TY - GEN
T1 - Wearable lifestyle tracking devices
T2 - ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp and ISWC 2015
AU - Carrion, Carme
AU - Caon, Maurizio
AU - Carrino, Stefano
AU - Moliner, Liliana Arroyo
AU - Lang, Alexandra
AU - Atkinson, Sarah
AU - Mazzola, Marco
AU - Perego, Paolo
AU - Standoli, Carlo Emilio
AU - Castell, Conxa
AU - Espallargues, Mireia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/9/7
Y1 - 2015/9/7
N2 - Behavioral patterns linked to physical activity and nutrition are established during adolescence and people tend to maintain them throughout their whole lives. Wearable life tracking devices might be a useful tool in order to achieve healthy lifestyles among teens. The objective of this study is to investigate what teens think of current wearable devices for fitness tracking, using the results to provide preliminary suggestions for the design of wearable technology aimed at adolescents. Thirty 14-16 teens (sex balanced) divided into 3 groups were asked to trial use commercially available wearables for one week. Each group took part in two focus group sessions, separated by a week. During the trial users experienced some technical problems while using the devices. Monitoring physical activity seems not to be a priority for adolescents but they recognize the important potential in doing it. Recommendations were suggested for the devices to better meet teenage preferences and needs.
AB - Behavioral patterns linked to physical activity and nutrition are established during adolescence and people tend to maintain them throughout their whole lives. Wearable life tracking devices might be a useful tool in order to achieve healthy lifestyles among teens. The objective of this study is to investigate what teens think of current wearable devices for fitness tracking, using the results to provide preliminary suggestions for the design of wearable technology aimed at adolescents. Thirty 14-16 teens (sex balanced) divided into 3 groups were asked to trial use commercially available wearables for one week. Each group took part in two focus group sessions, separated by a week. During the trial users experienced some technical problems while using the devices. Monitoring physical activity seems not to be a priority for adolescents but they recognize the important potential in doing it. Recommendations were suggested for the devices to better meet teenage preferences and needs.
KW - Fitness
KW - Focus groups
KW - Lifestyle tracking devices
KW - Physical activity
KW - Teen-agers
KW - Wearables
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84962493198
U2 - 10.1145/2800835.2809442
DO - 10.1145/2800835.2809442
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962493198
T3 - UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
SP - 669
EP - 674
BT - UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 11 September 2015
ER -