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Flowers or a robot army?: encouraging awareness & activity with personal, mobile displays

Consolvo, Sunny, Klasnja, Predrag, McDonald, David W., Avrahami, Daniel, Froehlich, Jon, LeGrand, Louis, Libby, Ryan, Mosher, Keith +1 more·2008·Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing

Abstract

Personal, mobile displays, such as those on mobile phones, are ubiquitous, yet for the most part, underutilized. We present results from a field experiment that investigated the effectiveness of these displays as a means for improving awareness of daily life (in our case, self-monitoring of physical activity). Twenty-eight participants in three experimental conditions used our UbiFit system for a period of three months in their day-to-day lives over the winter holiday season. Our results show, for example, that participants who had an awareness display were able to maintain their physical activity level (even during the holidays), while the level of physical activity for participants who did not have an awareness display dropped significantly. We discuss our results and their general implications for the use of everyday mobile devices as awareness displays.

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Authors
Consolvo, S., Klasnja, P., McDonald, D. W., Avrahami, D., Froehlich, J., LeGrand, L., Libby, R., Mosher, K., & Landay, J. A.
Affiliations
  • Intel (United States) (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Publisher
ACM
Published
2008-09-21
Pages
54-63
OpenAlex
W2120909070
Cited by
397
References
16
Citations by year
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FWCI
16.73
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Keywords
mobile displays, self-monitoring, physical activity, mobile devices, holiday season, behavior maintenance, ubiquitous computing, field experiments

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