Health empowerment through activity trackers: An empirical smart wristband study

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Highlights：

• We test the influence of smart wristband characteristics on health empowerment.

• Attractiveness, gamification, readability, feedback, and privacy drive empowerment.

• Perceived monitoring does not contribute to health empowerment.

• Health empowerment contributes to both affective and normative commitment.

摘要

•We test the influence of smart wristband characteristics on health empowerment.•Attractiveness, gamification, readability, feedback, and privacy drive empowerment.•Perceived monitoring does not contribute to health empowerment.•Health empowerment contributes to both affective and normative commitment.

论文关键词：Activity trackers,Smart wristband,Health empowerment,Self-observation,Self-regulation,Commitment

论文评审过程：Received 8 November 2015, Revised 8 February 2016, Accepted 20 March 2016, Available online 12 April 2016, Version of Record 12 April 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.065