Presentation: Tweet"Sensors Aren't Enough"
There are many applications for tools that track a person's activities over a long period of time, for example to help them modify their habits for improve their fitness. However, such a tool would be much harder for people to adopt if the tracking is not done automatically. Specifically, manual entry makes the continued use of the tool less likely.
It is now possible to rely on the vast number of sensors available in smartphones to automatically track activities without any direct action on behalf of the owner. Still, limitations of the devices, such as limited battery life, makes developing of such a tool non-trivial. In my talk I discuss two activity tracking apps, "Zombies, Run!" and "The Walk", and how too apps with apparently similar functionality use completely different approaches for tracking user activity.
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