Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans

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...

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Main Authors: LIN, Sapphire H., LING, Rich, ROSENTHAL, Sonny
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spelling sg-smu-ink.cis_research-11902024-08-22T03:34:29Z Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans LIN, Sapphire H. LING, Rich ROSENTHAL, Sonny 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. 2024-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/191 info:doi/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2184180 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1190/viewcontent/Opening_the_black_box_of_fitness_tracking__understanding_the_mechanisms_of_feedback_in_motivating_physical_activity_among_older_Singaporeans.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection College of Integrative Studies eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University behaviour change fitness trackers Mobile health personalised feedback real-time feedback wearables Asian Studies Social and Behavioral Sciences
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continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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topic behaviour change
fitness trackers
Mobile health
personalised feedback
real-time feedback
wearables
Asian Studies
Social and Behavioral Sciences
spellingShingle behaviour change
fitness trackers
Mobile health
personalised feedback
real-time feedback
wearables
Asian Studies
Social and Behavioral Sciences
LIN, Sapphire H.
LING, Rich
ROSENTHAL, Sonny
Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
description 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.
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author LIN, Sapphire H.
LING, Rich
ROSENTHAL, Sonny
author_facet LIN, Sapphire H.
LING, Rich
ROSENTHAL, Sonny
author_sort LIN, Sapphire H.
title Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
title_short Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
title_full Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
title_fullStr Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
title_full_unstemmed Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
title_sort opening the black box of fitness tracking: understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older singaporeans
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2024
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/191
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1190/viewcontent/Opening_the_black_box_of_fitness_tracking__understanding_the_mechanisms_of_feedback_in_motivating_physical_activity_among_older_Singaporeans.pdf
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