Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables

Asimakopoulos, Stavros; Asimakopoulos, Grigorios; Spillers, Frank

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Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables

Author(s): Asimakopoulos, Stavros; Asimakopoulos, Grigorios; Spillers, Frank

Publisher: MDPI

Issued date: 2017-01-22

Citation: Asimakopoulos, S., Asimakopoulos, G., Spillers, F. (2017). Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables. Informatics, 4 (1), 5.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics4010005

Sponsor: We would like to thank all users who participated in this research as well as Experience Dynamics, Inc. for providing the necessary resources and coordinating the user diary study. This study has been supported by financial aid from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project ECO2012-36160; Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the Fondo Europeo de Desarollo Regional (FEDER) under the project ECO2015-67296-R and, Communidad de Madrid and Fondo Social Europeo under the project INNCOMCON-CM S2015/HUM-3417.

Project: Gobierno de España. ECO2012-36160
Gobierno de España. ECO2015-67296-R
Comunidad de Madrid. S2015/HUM-3417/INNCOMCON-CM

Keywords: Fitness tracking , Mobile healthcare , User engagement , Motivation , Self-efficacy , Wearable technology , MHealth heuristics

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/27976

Rights: © 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España

Abstract:

Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation among users of these devices. For consumers looking to improve their heal [+]

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