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On the stories activity trackers tell

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Activity trackers tell stories about exercising. They entail "scripts," which suggest courses of actions and amplify the perception of particular aspects and structures (i.e., numbers, performance). This paper discusses the need to critically examine the stories suggested by activity trackers and to develop alternative stories.

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    UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct
    September 2016
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    DOI:10.1145/2968219
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