Activity Trackers: Comparing Athlete Runners versus Health Runners through a Dedicated Technology Acceptance Model

Ricardo Sol, Karolina Baras

2022

Abstract

The conducted study seeks to learn if, why and how two different groups of Activity Trackers users, Athletes and Health Runners, are utilizing these devices for their self-quantification. The study is based on the content analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews, 10 of which were with Athletes. To achieve its goals, the authors use a model based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), a widely adopted technology acceptance theory. Amongst our findings, the construct Perceived Ease of Use showed that Athletes find it hard to program the settings for their training and Health Runners expressed that there is too much information involved. This paper contributes by showing that an all-purpose interface is not suitable and offers new knowledge for methodological discussions as it is, to the best of our knowledge, the first qualitative study to employ a TAM like model in order to qualitatively interpret the use of Activity Trackers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sol R. and Baras K. (2022). Activity Trackers: Comparing Athlete Runners versus Health Runners through a Dedicated Technology Acceptance Model. In - icSPORTS, ISBN , pages 0-0. DOI: 10.5220/0011511400003321

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsports22,
author={Ricardo Sol and Karolina Baras},
title={Activity Trackers: Comparing Athlete Runners versus Health Runners through a Dedicated Technology Acceptance Model},
booktitle={ - icSPORTS,},
year={2022},
pages={},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011511400003321},
isbn={},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - - icSPORTS,
TI - Activity Trackers: Comparing Athlete Runners versus Health Runners through a Dedicated Technology Acceptance Model
SN -
AU - Sol R.
AU - Baras K.
PY - 2022
SP - 0
EP - 0
DO - 10.5220/0011511400003321