TY - GEN
T1 - User acceptance of real-life personalized coaching in social fitness apps
AU - Simoski, Bojan
AU - Klein, Michel C.A.
AU - Van Halteren, Aart T.
AU - Bal, Henri
PY - 2019/5/20
Y1 - 2019/5/20
N2 - This exploratory study contributes with in-depth insights into the user acceptance of real-life personalized coaching in social fitness smartphone apps. We have defined a set of novel coaching concepts, where a dyad with strong social ties perform real-life exercises, set and track the progress of shared fitness goals. To gain a user-centred context, we have adopted a mixed-methods design and conducted a twofold experiment. First, we have participated in survey where 1530 participants shared their views on the proposed coaching concepts. Second, we have developed a prototype social fitness app and have conducted a small pilot study to learn from the participants’ first-hand experience. Our findings highlight a number of approaches for enhancing coaching-based social fitness apps. We identify target groups that clearly show interest towards the presented coaching concepts. We report on user preferences towards taking a particular user role. We discuss the user experiences with the pilot app, and we pinpoint set of user barriers for using apps based on personalized coaching.
AB - This exploratory study contributes with in-depth insights into the user acceptance of real-life personalized coaching in social fitness smartphone apps. We have defined a set of novel coaching concepts, where a dyad with strong social ties perform real-life exercises, set and track the progress of shared fitness goals. To gain a user-centred context, we have adopted a mixed-methods design and conducted a twofold experiment. First, we have participated in survey where 1530 participants shared their views on the proposed coaching concepts. Second, we have developed a prototype social fitness app and have conducted a small pilot study to learn from the participants’ first-hand experience. Our findings highlight a number of approaches for enhancing coaching-based social fitness apps. We identify target groups that clearly show interest towards the presented coaching concepts. We report on user preferences towards taking a particular user role. We discuss the user experiences with the pilot app, and we pinpoint set of user barriers for using apps based on personalized coaching.
KW - MHealth
KW - Personal coach
KW - Social fitness apps
KW - User acceptance
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U2 - 10.1145/3329189.3329205
DO - 10.1145/3329189.3329205
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067856684
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 198
EP - 207
BT - Pervasive Health'19
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2019
Y2 - 20 May 2019 through 23 May 2019
ER -