The promotion of physical activity from digital services: Influence of e-lifestyles on intention to use fitness apps

J García-Fernández, P Gálvez-Ruiz… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… of using fitness Apps and therefore in promoting physical activity through online fitness
services… of use, perceived usefulness and attitude toward fitness Apps. Finally, the attitude toward …

Can mobile apps motivate fitness tracking? A study of technological affordances and workout behaviors

MD Molina, SS Sundar - Health communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Even though the benefits of physical activity have been … the popular social networking site
Twitter. BodySpace has two … , it does illustrate motivations for fitness application use. Thus, this …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of physical activity mobile apps with and without existing web-based social networking platforms: systematic review

JM Petersen, I Prichard, E Kemps - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019 - jmir.org
… Web-based social networking, required studies to specifically incorporate an existing
Web-based social networking platform (eg, Facebook and Twitter) into their design. Included …

… to work out! Examining the behavior change techniques and relevant theoretical mechanisms that predict the popularity of fitness mobile apps with Chinese-language …

G Huang, E Zhou - Health communication, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… of previous studies of English fitness mobile apps, this study … applied to app design to
promote physical activity, namely … fitness apps, this study content analyzed 177 eligible fitness

Walking for fun or for “likes”? The impacts of different gamification orientations of fitness apps on consumers' physical activities

R Tu, P Hsieh, W Feng - Sport Management Review, 2019 - Elsevier
… In recent years, social media, such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, have become an
important part of people’s daily life. Scholars have shown that social media has the capacity to …

Emerging technology in promoting physical activity and health: challenges and opportunities

Z Gao, JE Lee - Journal of clinical medicine, 2019 - mdpi.com
… of sedentary behavior and physical inactivity. On the … to promote physical activity (PA) and
health [2,3]. For example, newly emerging technologies such as mobile device applications, …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy of a mobile social networking intervention in promoting physical activity: quasi-experimental study

HL Tong, E Coiera, W Tong, Y Wang… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2019 - mhealth.jmir.org
… of a mobile social networking intervention, integrated with a wearable tracker to promote
physical activity, particularly for less physically … challenges faced by physically inactive people to …

The intention to use fitness and physical activity apps: a systematic review

S Angosto, J García-Fernández, I Valantine… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
… A total of 13 studies are analyzed that propose models for evaluating the intentions to
use fitness applications by sport consumers. The results revealed several key conclusions: (a) …

Using mobile applications to increase physical activity: a systematic review

L Pradal-Cano, C Lozano-Ruiz… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… of mobile apps used to promote physical activity suggests that … physical activity levels.
Although the analysed studies are generally of short duration and the increases in physical activity

Worldwide survey of fitness trends for 2020

WR Thompson - ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal, 2019 - journals.lww.com
training, mobile phone exercise apps was redefined as … media sites, including the FIT
Twitter page, the ACSM Journals’ … -care providers to include physical activity assessment and …