Smartwatch Wearing Behavior Analysis

Abstract

Smartwaches are the representative wearable or body-worn devices that provide convenient and easy information access. There is a growing body of research work on enabling novel interaction techniques and understanding user experiences of smartwatches. However, there is still lack of user experience research on wearing behaviors of smartwatches, which is critical for wearable device and service design. In this work, we investigate how college students wear smartwatches and what factors affect wearing behaviors by analyzing a longitudinal activity dataset collected from 50 smartwatch users for 203 days. Our results show that there are several temporal usage patterns and distinct groups of usage patterns. The factors affecting wearing behaviors are contextual, nuanced, and multifaceted. Our findings provide diverse design implications for improving wearability of smartwatches and leveraging smartwatches for behavioral changes.

Intermittent Continuance of Smart Health Devices: A Zone-of-Tolerance Perspective

“…In addition to industry reports, a few previous studies (e.g., [4] [5]) also confirmed the existence of intermittent continuance in the context of smart health. For example, Meyer et al [4] have found that the usage pattern of most activity tracker users was intermittent.…”

“…Recent studies have showed the importance of intermittent continuance phenomenon in the smart health context. For example, researchers indicated that most of the users followed an intermittent continuance pattern in the long-term usage of activity tracker [4], and users were accustomed to taking short breaks when using health wearables [5]. Moreover, in terms of smart health devices with specific functions, such as mobile self-management system for people with diabetes, users were prone to gradually decrease their usage frequency, instead of completely continuance or discontinuance usage [7].…”

Animo

“…), many works use smartwatches to understand and learn human behaviors, especially for health monitoring [1,9,58]. In a similar vein, research regarding the smartwatch user experience shows that personal monitoring activities, such as fitness and activity tracking, are some of the most popular features of the watch [28,47,55]. Fewer studies have explored the social applications of smartwatches.…”

“…Immediacy. Immediacy is already valued in smartwatches: users enjoy notifications for their ability to quickly check incoming calls and messages [28]. Animo leverages this immediacy for two-way communication: participants found that their partners were more immediately accessible to them.…”

Smartwatch games: Encouraging privacy-protective behaviour in a longitudinal study

“…They found smartwatches were most often used as timepieces, though they also provided notifications. Jeong et al (2017) undertook a 203-day longitudinal study, collecting data on 50 participants. They analysed wear, but never considered security or privacy.…”