Document type
Conference papers
Document subtype
Full paper
Title
This Watchface Fits with my Tattoos: Investigating Customisation Needs and Preferences in Personal Tracking
Participants in the publication
Rúben Gouveia (Author)
Dep. Informática
Daniel A. Epstein (Author)
Summary
People engage in self-tracking with diverse data collection and visualisation needs and preferences. Customisable self-tracking tools offer the potential to support individualized preferences by letting people make changes to the aesthetics and functionality of tracker displays. In this paper, we use the customisation options offered by the displays of commercial fitness smartwatches as a lens to investigate when, why and how 386 self-trackers engage in customisations in their daily lives. We find that people largely customise their trackers’ display frequently, multiple times a day, or not at all, with frequent customisations reflecting situational data, aesthetic and personal meaning needs. We discuss implications for the design of tracking tools aiming to support customisation and discuss the utility of customisations towards goal scaffolding and maintaining interest in tracking.
Date of Publication
2023-04-19
Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Event
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publication Identifiers
Address
Hamburg Germany
Publisher
ACM
Document Identifiers
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580955
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580955
Rankings
CORE A* (2023) - - Human-centred computing
Keywords
smartwatch
personal informatics
digital health
customisation
Tags
smartwatch
personal informatics
digital health
customisation
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