Health Information Tailoring and Data Privacy in a Smart Watch as a Preventive Health Tool Qualitative Study of Users’ Perceptions and Attitudes

Wearable technologies, especially smart watches are recently becoming popular and their health-related functions are well recognized. They can be effective to deliver health information to users, because they are able to track their activities. Whereas there is a privacy concern that users’ personal...

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Published inHuman-Computer Interaction: Users and Contexts pp. 537 - 548
Main Authors Yoon, HongSuk, Shin, Dong-Hee, Kim, Hyup
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Customization
Data privacy
Health informatics
Information tailoring
Personalization
Power user
Smart watch
Wearable device
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Summary:Wearable technologies, especially smart watches are recently becoming popular and their health-related functions are well recognized. They can be effective to deliver health information to users, because they are able to track their activities. Whereas there is a privacy concern that users’ personal health data could be misused according to be monitored their physical conditions via the smart watch. In this light of importance, this qualitative study explores the perceptions of smart watches as preventive health tools with 2 subjects: information tailoring and data privacy. This study used multiple methods: online survey, focus group interview and in-depth interview. A total of 12 users including power users and non-power users from Korea participated in a survey, 3 focus group sessions and post interviews. Three main themes emerged: (1) useful high-tech toy, (2) needs of hybrid tailoring service and (3) unnecessary anxiety vs. vague fear. Finally implications and limitations are discussed.
ISBN:331921005X
9783319210056
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21006-3_51