Activity Tracking in vivo
While recent research has emphasized the importance of understanding the lived experience of personal tracking, very little is known about…
Category: Projects
Subly: A Google Chrome Plugin for Subliminal Priming
With 50% of people spending over 6 h per day surfing the web, web browsers offer a promising platform for…
Does Beauty Matter in Behavior Change?
The use of motivational textual messages is a popular strategy for encouraging behavior change. Social media platforms, such as Instagram,…
Exploring the Design Space of Glanceable Feedback for Physical Activity Trackers
Recent research reveals over 70% of the usage of physical activity trackers to be driven by glances – brief, 5-second…
Designing behaviour
I intentionally chose a provocative title. Can we really design behaviour? Can technologies have such an influence on individuals’ behaviour that…
Does activity tracking make us happier?
In her recently published work, Jordan Etkin asked individuals to count their steps over the course of a day. Not surprisingly, she found…
Designing for different Stages in Behaviour Change
With multiple studies highlighting high abandonment rates of physical activity trackers, a question is raised as to how well they…
How Do We Engage With Activity Trackers? A Longitudinal Study of Habito
We report on a 10-month in-the-wild study of the adoption, engagement and discontinuation of an activity tracker called Habito, by…
Can crowdsourcing boost intelligence in mHealth?
mHealth has undoubtedly made significant progress over the past decade. Yet, tools such as physical activity trackers are rather naive as fitness coaches:…
Evaluating ubicomp technologies ‘in the wild’
As HCI shifts “to the wild”, in-situ methods such as Diary Methods and the Experience Sampling Method are gaining momentum.…