Abstract
Smart devices are becoming increasingly commercially available. However, uptake of these devices has been slow and abandonment swift, which indicates that smart devices may not currently meet the needs of users. To advance an understanding of the ways users benefit from, are challenged by, and abandon smart devices, we asked a group of users to purchase smart sensing devices to advance themselves towards a personal, self-defined goal. We found that participants abandoned devices because they did not fit with the their conceptions of themselves, the data collected by devices were perceived to not be useful, and device maintenance became unmanageable. Participants used devices because they had developed routines and because devices were useful, satisfied curiosity, and held hope for potential benefit to them. We propose ways to reduce barriers, motivate use, and argue for envisioning an additional function of these devices for short-Term interventions, in addition to standard long-Term use.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 635-646 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450335744 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 7 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 3rd ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2015 - Osaka, Japan Duration: Sep 7 2015 → Sep 11 2015 |
Publication series
Name | UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing |
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Other
Other | 3rd ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2015 |
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Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Osaka |
Period | 9/7/15 → 9/11/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2015 ACM.
Keywords
- Personal informatics systems
- Self tracking
- Smart devices
- Wearable devices