Effects of Simple Personalized Goals on the Usage of a Physical Activity App

Khatri, Ashik; Shastri, Dvijesh; Tsiamyrtzis, Panagiotis; Uyanik, Ilyas; Akleman, Ergün; Pavlidis, Ioannis

doi:10.1145/2851581.2892366

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“…Being on continuously, the app measures the walking inherent in practices not usually considered as ‘exercise’. This, it has been found [38], piques the curiosity of users and provides encouragement to those who were not previously aware that day-to-day walking could be seen in this way [48, 49]. The app is therefore likely to have greater appeal to this population than many of the pedometer-style systems that are currently available and to be more successful at changing their walking behaviours.…”

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Effectiveness of a smartphone app in increasing physical activity amongst male adults: a randomised controlled trial

et al. 2016

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BackgroundSmartphones are ideal for promoting physical activity in those with little intrinsic motivation for exercise. This study tested three hypotheses: H1 – receipt of social feedback generates higher step-counts than receipt of no feedback; H2 – receipt of social feedback generates higher step-counts than only receiving feedback on one’s own walking; H3 – receipt of feedback on one’s own walking generates higher step-counts than no feedback (H3).MethodsA parallel group randomised controlled trial measured the impact of feedback on steps-counts. Healthy male participants (n = 165) aged 18–40 were given phones pre-installed with an app that recorded steps continuously, without the need for user activation. Participants carried these with them as their main phones for a two-week run-in and six-week trial. Randomisation was to three groups: no feedback (control); personal feedback on step-counts; group feedback comparing step-counts against those taken by others in their group. The primary outcome measure, steps per day, was assessed using longitudinal multilevel regression analysis. Control variables included attitude to physical activity and perceived barriers to physical activity.ResultsFifty-five participants were allocated to each group; 152 completed the study and were included in the analysis: n = 49, no feedback; n = 53, individual feedback; n = 50, individual and social feedback. The study provided support for H1 and H3 but not H2. Receipt of either form of feedback explained 7.7 % of between-subject variability in step-count (F = 6.626, p < 0.0005). Compared to the control, the expected step-count for the individual feedback group was 60 % higher (effect on log step-count = 0.474, 95 % CI = 0.166–0.782) and that for the social feedback group, 69 % higher (effect on log step-count = 0.526, 95 % CI = 0.212–0.840). The difference between the two feedback groups (individual vs social feedback) was not statistically significant.ConclusionsAlways-on smartphone apps that provide step-counts can increase physical activity in young to early-middle-aged men but the provision of social feedback has no apparent incremental impact. This approach may be particularly suitable for inactive people with low levels of physical activity; it should now be tested with this population.

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Effectiveness of a smartphone app in increasing physical activity amongst male adults: a randomised controlled trial

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“…HCI researchers have explored aspects such as the design of nutrition logging or weight-loss devices and apps [34,35] and have experimented with innovative ways of monitoring food consumption [36] or promoting mindful eating [37], as well as user experiences of weight-management apps [38]. Psychological models of behaviour are often applied in persuasive design-oriented research directed at food-tracking apps, with an emphasis on how they can be used to nudge users to change their food consumption behaviours.…”

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‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

Lupton

2018

MTI

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Food-tracking apps constitute a major category of the thousands of food-related apps now available. They are promoted as helping users monitor and measure their food consumption to improve their health or to lose weight. In this article, I present six vignettes drawn from interviews with Australian women about their use and non-use of food-tracking apps. The vignettes provide detailed insights into the experiences of these women and their broader sociocultural and biographical contexts. The analysis is based on feminist materialism theoretical perspectives, seeking to identify the relational connections, affective forces, and agential capacities generated in and through the human-app assemblage. The vignettes reveal that affective forces related to the desire to control and manage the body and conform to norms and ideals about good health and body weight inspire people to try food-tracking apps. However, the agential capacities promised by app developers may not be generated even when people have committed hope and effort in using the app. Frustration, disappointment, the fear of becoming too controlled, and annoyance or guilt evoked by the demands of the app can be barriers to continued and successful use. Sociocultural and biographical contexts and relational connections are also central to the capacities of human-app assemblages. Women's ambivalences about using apps as part of efforts to control their body weight are sited within their struggles to conform to accepted ideals of physical appearance but also their awareness that these struggles may be too limiting of their agency. This analysis, therefore, draws attention to what a body can and cannot do as it comes together with food tracking apps.

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“…Big-Five [35] B5 Personality cardio loading [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Qualtrics via iPhone once questionnaires were implemented in Qualtrics [62], and their links were texted to the participants' phones at the appropriate times. In more detail, participant monitoring was commencing on Mondays.…”

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“…The research community responded to these sober findings by proposing orthotic designs that would keep track of users' screen time, increasing their awareness [9]. They also fielded imaginative apps intent on luring users away from screens by enticing them into gamified physical activity [10].…”

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Investigating Cardiovascular Activation of Young Adults in Routine Driving

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Alghamdi

Taamneh

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Affective Comput.

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We report on a naturalistic study investigating the effects of routine driving on cardiovascular activation. We recruited 21 healthy young adults from a broad geographic area in the Southwestern United States. Using the participants' own smartphones and smartwatches, we monitored for a week both their driving and non-driving activities. Monitoring included the continuous recording of a) heart rate throughout the day, b) hand motion during driving as a proxy of persistent texting, and c) contextualized driving data, complete with traffic and weather information. These high temporal resolution variables were complemented with the drivers' biographic and psychometric profiles. Our analysis suggests that anxiety predisposition and high speeds are associated with significant cardiovascular activation on drivers, likely linked to sympathetic arousal. Surprisingly, these associations hold true under good weather, normal traffic, and with experienced drivers behind the wheel. The said findings call for attention to insidious effects of apparently benign drives even for people in their prime. Accordingly, our research contributes to intriguing new discourses on driving affect and personal health informatics.

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Effects of Simple Personalized Goals on the Usage of a Physical Activity App

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Effectiveness of a smartphone app in increasing physical activity amongst male adults: a randomised controlled trial

Effectiveness of a smartphone app in increasing physical activity amongst male adults: a randomised controlled trial

‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

Investigating Cardiovascular Activation of Young Adults in Routine Driving

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