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Exploring Physical Activities in an Employer-Sponsored Health Program

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Zachary Fitz-walter,

Alessandro Soro,

Margot BreretonAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1421 - 1426

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732815

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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This work brings a perspective from an employer-sponsored health and wellness program called Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) to the 'quantified self' research. We present preliminary findings from a study with 17 university employees who participated in the GCC. We aimed to explore how participants derived meaningfulness from their self-tracking experiences. Our findings echo the growing body of work that advocates for conceptualizing activity tracking beyond the rationalistic, data-oriented perspectives and supporting more social and lived experiences.

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2702613

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