Menstrual Tracking, Fitness Tracking and Body Work: Digital Tracking Tools and Their Use in Optimising Health, Beauty, Wellness and the Aesthetic Self [PDF]
Youth, 2023 Digital self-tracking tools can be part of body work to measure, monitor, and optimise progress towards idealised versions of the self. Fitness and calorie trackers are obvious examples but menstrual tracking apps, which can track a large range of bodily
Anna Friedlander
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A Social and Ethical Framework for Providing Health Information Obtained From Combining Genetics and Fitness Tracking Data [PDF]
Technology in Society, 2023 In this paper we explore a new technological intersection in the “big data revolution”: the integration of two forms of data, genetic data and fitness tracking data.
Alexis Walker +2 more
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Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables
Informatics, 2017 Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation among users of these devices.
Stavros Asimakopoulos +2 more
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Ethics of Gamification in Health and Fitness-Tracking. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The use of game-like elements is become increasingly popular in the context of fitness and health apps. While such “gamified” apps hold great potential in motivating people to improve their health, they also come with a “darker side”.
Arora C, Razavian M.
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Usefulness of wearable fitness tracking devices in patients undergoing esophagectomy. [PDF]
Esophagus, 2022 Esophageal cancer surgery requires maintenance and enhancement of perioperative nutritional status and physical function to prevent postoperative complications. Therefore, awareness of the importance of preoperative patient support is increasing.
Honke J +9 more
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Fitness tracking reveals task-specific associations between memory, mental health, and physical activity. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Physical activity can benefit both physical and mental well-being. Different forms of exercise (e.g., aerobic versus anaerobic; running versus walking, swimming, or yoga; high-intensity interval training versus endurance workouts; etc.) impact physical ...
Manning JR +3 more
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Understanding intergenerational fitness tracking practices: 12 suggestions for design [PDF]
CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 2021 The paper presents a qualitative study to explore the use of fitness trackers and their social functions in intergenerational settings. The study covered three phases of semi-structured interviews with older and younger adults during individual and ...
Salehzadeh Niksirat K +3 more
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Evaluating the Validity of Current Mainstream Wearable Devices in Fitness Tracking Under Various Physical Activities: Comparative Study. [PDF]
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 2018 Background Wearable devices have attracted much attention from the market in recent years for their fitness monitoring and other health-related metrics; however, the accuracy of fitness tracking results still plays a major role in health promotion ...
Xie J +5 more
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BreakMi: Reversing, Exploiting and Fixing Xiaomi Fitness Tracking Ecosystem
Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2022 Xiaomi is the leading company in the fitness tracking industry. Successful attacks on its fitness tracking ecosystem would result in severe consequences, including the loss of sensitive health and personal data.
Marco Casagrande +4 more
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Reconciling the What, When and How of Privacy Notifications in Fitness Tracking Scenarios
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2021 The increasing number of fitness tracking wearables deployed worldwide poses challenges to the privacy of their users, esp. in terms of transparency. Privacy notifications facilitate transparency by providing users with situational awareness about the ...
Delphine Reinhardt +1 more
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