'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 …

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 …

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 …

{“There} is nothing that I need to keep {secret”}: Sharing Practices and Concerns of Wearable Fitness Data

A Alqhatani, HR Lipford - Fifteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and …, 2019 - usenix.org
There has been increasing use of commercial wearable devices for tracking fitness-related
activities in the past few years. These devices sense and collect a variety of personal health …

[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 …

[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 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 …

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 maintenance in self-digitization: the effect of information disclosure on continuance intentions

F Bélanger, RE Crossler, J Correia - ACM SIGMIS Database: The …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Individuals are increasingly using personal Internet of Things (IoT) devices that digitize their
day-to-day lives. Those devices, however, often require substantial personal information to …