TY - JOUR AU - Bäccman, Charlotte AU - Wästlund, Erik PY - 2022/11/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The use of fitness-trackers and the role of motivational intermissions to maintain healthy behaviors: an explorative case study on runners JF - South Florida Journal of Development JA - S. F. J. of Dev. VL - 3 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - 10.46932/sfjdv3n6-020 UR - https://ojs.southfloridapublishing.com/ojs/index.php/jdev/article/view/1909 SP - 6629-6650 AB - <p>This study explores a user perspective on fitness-trackers and how they are used to maintain healthy behaviors; and how fitness trackers could be designed to better maintain healthy behaviors. A thematic analysis was conducted on the transcriptions from semi-structured interviews with eight seasoned non-professional runners who regularly used fitness trackers in their exercise regime. The main findings are: (a) the maintenance of healthy behaviors rely more on what happens in the intermission – that is, between healthy behaviors – than during the actual behavior itself; and (b), by visualizing the history of healthy behaviors, intermission feedback help motivate the repetition of healthy behavior in a way that mimics broad choice bracketing and behavioral streaks<em>. </em>Thus, fitness-trackers should focus more on the motivational aspects during the intermission between the healthy behaviors rather than encouraging the performance during the target behavior.</p> ER -