Category: Projects

While recent research has emphasized the importance of understanding the lived experience of personal tracking, very little is known about…

With 50% of people spending over 6 h per day surfing the web, web browsers offer a promising platform for…

The use of motivational textual messages is a popular strategy for encouraging behavior change. Social media platforms, such as Instagram,…

Recent research reveals over 70% of the usage of physical activity trackers to be driven by glances – brief, 5-second…

I intentionally chose a provocative title. Can we really design behaviour? Can technologies have such an influence on individuals’ behaviour that…

In her recently published work, Jordan Etkin asked individuals to count their steps over the course of a day. Not surprisingly, she found…

With multiple studies highlighting high abandonment rates of physical activity trackers, a question is raised as to how well they…

We report on a 10-month in-the-wild study of the adoption, engagement and discontinuation of an activity tracker called Habito, by…

mHealth has undoubtedly made significant progress over the past decade. Yet, tools such as physical activity trackers are rather naive as fitness coaches:…

As HCI shifts “to the wild”, in-situ methods such as Diary Methods and the Experience Sampling Method are gaining momentum.…

Technologies for behavior change have immense potential. Consider, for instance, the case of physical activity trackers. Our healthcare systems are…

Human behavior accounts for a significant chunk of domestic energy consumption. In fact, simple things like turning off the lights in empty…

For long, HCI had neglected longitudinal studies. As a result, our understanding of the qualities of interactive technologies was limited…