The mobile fitness coach: Towards individualized skill assessment using personalized mobile devices

Kranz, Matthias; Möller, Andreas; Hammerla, Nils Y.; Diewald, Stefan; Plötz, Thomas; Olivier, Patrick; Roalter, Luis

doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.06.002

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“…Some studies have examined the use of wearable medical technology for chronic health conditions such as diabetes with promising results (Georga, Protopappas, Bellos, & Fotiadis, 2014). Most commercially available health trackers are geared toward fitness and exercise, obviously with promising effects on physical activity (Kranz et al, 2013 …”

Section: Mobile and Wearable Technology For Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey

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In the age of digital technology, as teens seem to be constantly connected online, via social media, and through mobile applications, it is no surprise that they increasingly turn to digital media to answer their health questions. This study is the first of its kind to survey a large, nationally-representative sample of teens to investigate how they use the newest digital technologies, including mobile apps, social networking sites, electronic gaming and wearable devices, to explore health topics. The survey covered the types of health topics teens most frequently search for, which technologies they are most likely to use and how they use them, and whether they report having changed their behaviors due to digital health information. In addition, this survey explores how the digital divide continues to impact adolescents. Results of this study indicate that teens are concerned about many health issues, ranging from fitness, sexual activity, drugs, hygiene as well as mental health and stress. As teens virtually always have a digital device at their fingertips, it is clear that public health interventions and informational campaigns must be tailored to reflect the ways that teens currently navigate digital health information and the health challenges that concern them most.

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Section: Mobile and Wearable Technology For Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey

Wartella

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Montague

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“…As reviewed elsewhere (Lomborg and Frandsen 2015;Lupton 2016), existing research developed at the intersection of computer science and health studies treats personal self-tracking data as already having predetermined meaning and value, which can be mobilised in order to change the user's behaviour. The concerns in this field of research, therefore, have two key foci when it comes to user-oriented studies: the deployment of self-tracking for improving health through lifestyle interventions (see for example Turner-McGrievy et al 2013;Wang et al 2014); and how self-tracking technologies might be designed to motivate behaviour change on the basis of particular user experiences (see for example Kranza et al 2013)). …”

Section: Personal Data Epistemologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pedagogy as Possibility: Health Interventions as Digital Openness

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Pink

2017

Social Sciences

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In this article we propose an approach to digital health tracking technologies that draws on design anthropology. This entails re-thinking the pedagogical importance of personal data as lying in how they participate in the constitution of new possibilities that enable people to learn about, and configure, their everyday health in new ways. There have been two dominant strands in traditional debates in the field of pedagogy: one that refers to processes of teaching people to do things in particular ways; and another that seeks to enable learning. The first of these corresponds with existing understandings of self-tracking technologies as either unsuccessful behavioural change devices, or as providing solutions to problems that do not necessarily exist. When seen as such, self-tracking technologies inevitably fail as forms of intervention towards better health. In this article we investigate what happens when we take the second strand-the notion of enabling learning as an incremental and emergent process-seriously as a mode of intervention towards health through self-tracking technologies. We show how such a shift in pedagogical understanding of the routes to knowing these technologies offer creates opportunities to move beyond simplistic ideas of behavioural change as the main application of digital body monitoring in everyday life. In what follows, we first demonstrate how the disjunctures that arise from this context emerge. We then outline a critical response to how learning through life-tracking has been conceptualised in research in health and human-computer interaction research. We offer an alternative response by drawing on a processual theory of learning and recent and emerging research in sociology, media studies, anthropology, and cognate disciplines. Then, drawing on ethnographic research, we argue for understanding learning through the production of personal data as involving emplaced and non-representational routes to knowing. This, we propose, requires a corresponding rethinking of the epistemological status of personal data and what kind of knowledge it can be claimed to produce. Finally, we take up the implications of this and advance the discussion through a design anthropological approach, through which we refigure the interventional potential of such technologies as lying in their capacity to create possibilities for experiential, and often unspoken, ways of embodied and emplaced knowing.

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“…Nor does the scholarship in fitness apps more broadly include much work on the qualitative dimensions of their use. Existing research on mobile fitness apps is dominated by quantitative work within a positivist framework of behavior change (Conroy, Yang, & Maher, 2014;West et al, 2012;Kranz et al, 2012;Chen & Pu, 2014;Millington, 2014;Lister, West, Cannon, Sax, & Brodegard, 2014). Conroy et al (2014) found that the top ranked fitness mobile apps can be categorized as either educational or motivational, and the most common behavior change techniques used in those apps include providing information or demonstrating specific physical activities.…”

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Smart Health Facilitator: Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps

Chen

2017

Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications

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A phenomenological study was conducted to explore how Chinese consumers perceive fitness mobile apps in their everyday lives. Twenty in-depth interviews were used to collect data. Findings suggested that the meanings of mobile fitness apps are multidimensional, dialectical, and multilayered. On the positive side, mobile fitness apps embody control, empowerment, and networked individualism which assist Chinese consumers in achieving their fitness goals, maintaining healthy lifestyles, and enhancing the quality of their lives. On the negative side, mobile fitness apps have a constraining effect, geographically and temporally speaking. Some participants even linked fitness app use to their feelings of loneliness. Practical implications were offered to mobile fitness app companies and health organizations.

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The mobile fitness coach: Towards individualized skill assessment using personalized mobile devices

Cited by 168 publications

References 24 publications

Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey

Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey

Pedagogy as Possibility: Health Interventions as Digital Openness

Smart Health Facilitator: Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps

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