A Usability Evaluation of Fitness-Tracking Apps for Initial Users

Nowadays, there are many different mobile apps designed to help people start and continue practicing physical activities. This paper aims to analyze the usability of the most used apps for walk through inspection methods, focusing especially on the core tasks available. This paper presents the probl...

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Published inHCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts pp. 457 - 462
Main Authors Klock, Ana Carolina Tomé, Gasparini, Isabela
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Subjects
Ergonomic criteria
Fitness-tracking apps
Heuristic evaluation
Inspection method
Usability evaluation
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Summary:Nowadays, there are many different mobile apps designed to help people start and continue practicing physical activities. This paper aims to analyze the usability of the most used apps for walk through inspection methods, focusing especially on the core tasks available. This paper presents the problems found and the comparison between the five analyzed apps. Through the results, the goal of this study is identifying the usability problems to help improving user interaction with physical activity monitoring apps.
ISBN:3319213822
9783319213828
ISSN:1865-0929
1865-0937
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21383-5_76