Smartwatches

Cecchinato, Marta E.; Cox, Anna L.; Bird, Jon

doi:10.1145/2702613.2732837

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“…Notifications are perceived as the main functionality of the smartwatch, with 98% of participants ranking it as the most important feature [20]. Similarly, other studies report the notification functionality [18,40] and the associated ability to access smartphone information inconspicuously [6,23,25] as equally important, indicating that smartwatches play a different social role when compared to smartphones.…”

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Quantifying Sources and Types of Smartwatch Usage Sessions

Visuri

Sarsenbayeva

Berkel

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We seek to quantify smartwatch use, and establish differences and similarities to smartphone use. Our analysis considers use traces from 307 users that include over 2.8 million notifications and 800,000 screen usage events, and we compare our findings to previous work that quantifies smartphone use. The results show that smartwatches are used more briefly and more frequently throughout the day, with half the sessions lasting less than 5 seconds. Interaction with notifications is similar across both types of devices, both in terms of response times and preferred application types. We also analyse the differences between our smartwatch dataset and a dataset aggregated from four previously conducted smartphone studies. The similarities and differences between smartwatch and smartphone use suggest effect on usage that go beyond differences in form factor.

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Quantifying Sources and Types of Smartwatch Usage Sessions

Visuri

Sarsenbayeva

Berkel

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Smart watches, wearable computers worn on the wrist that give access and notifications of personal information, have only recently been introduced as ‘preventive health tool’ for users (Yoon, Shin, & Kim, ). Wearables, smart watches particularly, are poised to significantly impact consumers’ daily lives, despite the fact that consumers are unaware of the benefits of using them (Cecchinato, Cox, & Bird, ).…”

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Consumerism in online health information search and self‐tracking devices

Ertiö

Räsänen

2019

Int J Consumer Studies

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The Internet hosts a plethora of health information and has become a popular source users turn to when looking up information. Nonetheless, the existence of this wealth of online health information generates challenges related to access and user skills. Whereas previous studies surveyed a cross‐section of users, our aim is to complement them with a population‐level study. We use nationally representative data collected by Statistics Finland between 2006 and 2016 to investigate the extent to which online health information search and use of self‐tracking devices associate with social, economic and demographic factors. We have used descriptive statistics and logistic regressions to show that, in 2016, disparities still existed in how Finns make use of the health information found online as well as appropriate new devices such as self‐tracking devices. The population level of this study aids us in understanding the degree of adoption of new technologies used by different demographics. We show that, despite having access to the Internet, certain factors influence actual usage negatively. Looking forward, a key limitation of our study is a lack of measures to determine how these demographics use health information to adjust their behaviour. In the Nordic context, important research implications relate to the persisting digital divides in health technology adoption.

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“…Fortunately, the latency issue between the devices is largely improved in recent models of smartwatches; however, our study results and their design implications still highlighted the need for improving user interaction schemes to rely less heavily on fingertipbased visual and touch interaction and to be increasingly naturalistic. In particular, these changes can support micro-interactions with smartwatches (i.e., short and frequent access) in various contexts (Cecchinato, Cox, & Bird, 2015;Schirra & Bentley, 2015) by incorporating new input modalities, such as voice or wrist gesture-based input interactions.…”

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A qualitative study of smartwatch usage and its usability

Chun

Dey

Lee

et al. 2018

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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This study aims to explore usability issues of watch‐type wearable devices and to suggest guidelines for improved operation of smartwatches. To do so, we conducted a series of surveys, interviews, and task performance experiments. Thirty smartwatch users from ages 20 to 43 years were recruited. Users’ experiences of smartwatches were collected via a weeklong, online‐based diary study, which consisted of various tasks to be completed while smartwatches were in use. Our study assessed usability problems associated with those tasks, concurrent tasks conducted while interacting with smartwatches, pain points/discomfort that users had while interacting with their devices, and requirements/requests of the smartwatch users. During the week of tracking, participants were asked to complete the usability evaluation three times a day using usability principles we designed for the study: information display, control, learnability, interoperability, and preference. In addition, task performance tests were conducted for the tasks most frequently conducted on touch‐based displays: number entry, swiping, and scrolling. Specific usability issues of smartwatches were identified and summarized for each usability principle by triangulating survey, interview, and task performance evaluation results. Based on the insights from the results of the study, we conclude by suggesting guidelines for further enhancing users’ experience of future smartwatches.

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Smartwatches

Cited by 77 publications

References 10 publications

Quantifying Sources and Types of Smartwatch Usage Sessions

Quantifying Sources and Types of Smartwatch Usage Sessions

Consumerism in online health information search and self‐tracking devices

A qualitative study of smartwatch usage and its usability

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