Are those steps worth your privacy? Fitness-tracker users' perceptions of privacy and utility

L Velykoivanenko, KS Niksirat, N Zufferey… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Fitness trackers are increasingly popular. The data they collect provides substantial benefits
to their users, but it also creates privacy risks. In this work, we investigate how fitness-tracker …

Understanding fitness tracker users' security and privacy knowledge, attitudes and behaviours

S Gabriele, S Chiasson - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Personal data collected by fitness trackers can leave users open to security and privacy
threats, often without their knowledge. Using an online survey with 212 fitness tracker users …

Privacy attitudes and data valuation among fitness tracker users

J Vitak, Y Liao, P Kumar, M Zimmer… - … Digital Worlds: 13th …, 2018 - Springer
Fitness trackers are an increasingly popular tool for tracking one's health and physical
activity. While research has evaluated the potential benefits of these devices for health and …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the continuous use of fitness trackers: A thematic analysis

M Becker, A Kolbeck, C Matt, T Hess - 2017 - researchgate.net
Fitness trackers can increase physical activity and reduce the risk of diseases such as
diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Despite these health-related benefits, perceived costs …

Fitness tracking technologies: Data privacy doesn't matter? The (un) concerns of users, former users, and non-users

K Fietkiewicz, A Ilhan - 2020 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
To be concerned about data privacy in the fitness tracking world is apparently not the
question of age or fitness level. It also does not necessarily influence the actual use of …

'There's nothing really they can do with this information': unpacking how users manage privacy boundaries for personal fitness information

M Zimmer, P Kumar, J Vitak, Y Liao… - Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fitness trackers are an increasingly popular tool for tracking one's health and physical
activity. While research has evaluated how these mobile devices can improve health and …

A step in the right direction–understanding privacy concerns and perceived sensitivity of fitness trackers

C Lidynia, P Brauner, M Ziefle - Advances in Human Factors in Wearable …, 2018 - Springer
Keeping an active lifestyle has been important and recommended for decades. The arrival of
the Internet of Things (IoT) offers opportunities to simplify the tracking and logging of data …

[HTML][HTML] Reconciling the what, when and how of privacy notifications in fitness tracking scenarios

P Murmann, M Beckerle, S Fischer-Hübner… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

A recommendation approach for user privacy preferences in the fitness domain

OR Sanchez, I Torre, Y He, BP Knijnenburg - User Modeling and User …, 2020 - Springer
Fitness trackers are undoubtedly gaining in popularity. As fitness-related data are
persistently captured, stored, and processed by these devices, the need to ensure users' …

Every step you fake: A comparative analysis of fitness tracker privacy and security

A Hilts, C Parsons, J Knockel - 2016 - policycommons.net
Introduction Canadians, and many people around the world, are increasingly purchasing,
and using, electronic devices meant to capture and record the relative levels of a person's …