The evolution of smartphones together with increasing computational power has
empowered developers to create innovative context-aware applications for recognizing user …

Technology mediated healthcare services designed to stimulate patients' self-efficacy are
widely regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce the burden on the healthcare system …

Researchers have studied how people use self-tracking technologies and discovered a long
list of barriers including lack of time and motivation as well as difficulty in data integration …

Signal segmentation is a crucial stage in the activity recognition process; however, this has
been rarely and vaguely characterized so far. Windowing approaches are normally used for …

Persuasive technology to motivate healthy behavior is a growing area of research within HCI
and ubiquitous computing. The emergence of commercial wearable devices for tracking …

Game design elements are often implemented in persuasive systems aimed to promote
physical activity, a process called “gamification.” Gamification is believed to motivate users …

Data surrounds each and every one of us in our daily lives, ranging from exercise logs, to
archives of our interactions with others on social media, to online resources pertaining to our …

Although numerous devices exist to track and share exercise routines based on running and
walking, these devices offer limited functionality for strength-training exercises. We introduce …

The better the software development community becomes at creating software, the more
software the world seems to demand. Although there is a large body of research about …

A crucial element in many mobile fitness applications is gamification that makes physical
activities fun. While many methods focus on competition and individual users' interaction …