Appropriation of digital tracking tools in an online weight loss community: Individual and shared experiences

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dc.contributor.authorRyan, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorLinehan, Conor
dc.contributor.authorDockray, Samantha
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderS3 Connected Health, Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-23T13:31:07Z
dc.date.available2021-07-23T13:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-28
dc.date.updated2021-07-23T13:05:51Z
dc.description.abstractOnline health communities provide a space where people seek out and provide support for weight loss activities, including tracking. Our study examined the experiences of members of an online community (r/loseit on Reddit.com) who posted about using digital tracking tools for weight loss. A targeted search garnered 379 public posts, which were analyzed using Thematic Analysis. Four themes reflected members’ individual and shared experiences: Tracking as gaining insight, Tracking as a vehicle of control, Confronting challenges in sustaining tracking and Teaching and learning the skills of tracking. We highlight complex socio-technical processes that members developed around tracking tools and discuss how knowledge of these appropriations can be applied to designing future user-centered tracking tools to support weight loss. We discuss how the social context of an online health community can shape both the usage of tracking tools and self-regulatory processes for health behaviour change.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council and S3 Connected Health (Grant number: EPSPG/2016/182)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationRyan, K., Linehan, C. and Dockray, S. (2021) 'Appropriation of digital tracking tools in an online weight loss community: Individual and shared experiences', DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, USA, 28 June-2 July, pp. 999-1014. doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462092en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3461778.3462092en
dc.identifier.endpage1014en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-8476-6
dc.identifier.startpage999en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11590
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)en
dc.relation.ispartofDIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, USA, 28 June-2 July
dc.relation.urihttps://dis.acm.org/2021/
dc.rights© 2021, the Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectPersonal dataen
dc.subjectTrackingen
dc.subjectSocial mediaen
dc.subjectOnline communitiesen
dc.subjectWeight lossen
dc.subjectQualitative methodsen
dc.titleAppropriation of digital tracking tools in an online weight loss community: Individual and shared experiencesen
dc.typeConference itemen
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