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Opening the black box of fitness tracking: understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans.
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Behaviour & Information Technology . Mar2024, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p736-748. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper examines how older adults interact with fitness trackers and how that interaction influences their physical activity. We carried out qualitative interviews with 22 individuals between the ages of 55 and 72 who had used fitness trackers as part of a six-week field experiment investigating the effects of feedback from fitness trackers and the social influence of their spouses. From their comments, we derived an explorative process model explaining the mechanisms and the four stages of effects arising from personalised feedback, namely, cognitive, affective, conative, and intuitive. These effects were grouped into internal and external dimensions. Three types of goal-related decisions determined whether interviewees moved from the internal responses of cognition and emotion to the external response of behaviour change. The findings from this study elucidate how real-time personalised feedback can motivate physical activity among older adults and highlight the goal-related factors that influence this effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PHYSICAL fitness mobile apps
*FIELD research
*AFFECT (Psychology)
*MOTIVATION (Psychology)
*RESEARCH methodology
*WEARABLE technology
*INTERVIEWING
*COGNITION
*BEHAVIOR
*PHYSICAL activity
*QUALITATIVE research
*SPOUSES
*COMPARATIVE studies
*INTUITION
*PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation
*RESEARCH funding
*HEALTH behavior
*DECISION making
*AUTOMATION
*DATA analysis
*THEMATIC analysis
*HEALTH promotion
*GOAL (Psychology)
*CONTROL (Psychology)
*MIDDLE age
*OLD age
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144929X
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Behaviour & Information Technology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175749954
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2184180