Running: A Flexible Situated Study

2016. Elizaveta Temir, Aisling O'Kane, Paul Marshall & Ann Blandford
CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

This paper describes a situated study of personal informatics applications for running that had to be conducted in a flexible and pragmatic way to adjust for the context of use. A qualitative situated study highlighted important differences in runners' motivations, uncovering markedly different uses and preferences between people who run either for health or for pleasure, but also underscored how the physical nature of the interaction impacted data collection. By adjusting the method to be sensitive to the physical nature of the interaction and the preferences of the participants, a pragmatic situated approach provided insights into how these technologies are actually used.

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Citation

Temir, E., O'Kane, A. A., Marshall, P., & Blandford, A. (2016). Running: a flexible situated study. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2906–2914). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892385, doi:10.1145/2851581.2892385

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2851581.2892385,
author = {Temir, Elizaveta and O'Kane, Aisling Ann and Marshall, Paul and Blandford, Ann},
title = {Running: A Flexible Situated Study},
year = {2016},
isbn = {9781450340823},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892385},
doi = {10.1145/2851581.2892385},
abstract = {This paper describes a situated study of personal informatics applications for running that had to be conducted in a flexible and pragmatic way to adjust for the context of use. A qualitative situated study highlighted important differences in runners' motivations, uncovering markedly different uses and preferences between people who run either for health or for pleasure, but also underscored how the physical nature of the interaction impacted data collection. By adjusting the method to be sensitive to the physical nature of the interaction and the preferences of the participants, a pragmatic situated approach provided insights into how these technologies are actually used.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {2906–2914},
numpages = {9},
keywords = {wellbeing, situated studies, running, personal informatics, mobile, fitness, exercise, context, apps},
location = {San Jose, California, USA},
series = {CHI EA '16}
}