Healthy users' personal health information management from activity trackers: The perspective of gym‐goers | Zendy

Feng Yuanyuan | Zendy; Li Kai | Zendy; Agosto Denise E. | Zendy

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Healthy users' personal health information management from activity trackers: The perspective of gym‐goers

Author(s) -

Feng Yuanyuan,

Li Kai,

Agosto Denise E.

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

proceedings of the association for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193

H-Index - 14

ISSN - 2373-9231

DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401009

Subject(s) - activity tracker , perspective (graphical) , bittorrent tracker , tracking (education) , knowledge management , public relations , business , physical activity , psychology , applied psychology , computer science , medicine , political science , eye tracking , physical medicine and rehabilitation , pedagogy , artificial intelligence , computer vision

This paper examines how healthy activity tracker users, particularly gym‐goers, manage personal health information generated by their activity tracking devices. Findings from 117 valid responses to a web survey are presented to provide an overall picture of healthy activity tracker users' health or fitness‐related needs, their personal health information management (PHIM) practices and the gaps between their needs and PHIM. Based on the survey findings, we suggest considering future activity tracker design improvements for addressing users' currently unmet needs while recognizing the limitations of current technology. We conclude with a discussion of the necessity for reexamining PHIM in a new era of broader self‐tracking activities and needs.

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