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Abstract | ||
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Wearable technologies are increasingly popular, but often abandoned. Given their highly personal nature, aesthetics and form factor play a key role in adoption and continued use, but thus far little work has focused on this. This paper presents a three-part study to better understand the role of aesthetics and personalisation within wearables. We provided 15 participants with customised, low-fidelity, non-functional "activity trackers", based on their own designs, for in the wild evaluation. Our participants' use of these prototypes provided us with insights into their feelings towards their existing commercial devices and their own designs alike. We found that aesthetics plays an important, and currently underappreciated, role in use and continued engagement, particularly when the context of use is considered. We suggest that manufacturers should embrace adaptability and DIY cultures, allowing end-users to customise their wearables and support them in appropriately choosing, and creating their own designs.
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Year | Venue | Field |
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2018 | CHI Extended Abstracts | Aesthetics,Adaptability,Wearable computer,Computer science,Activity tracker,Human–computer interaction,Wearable technology,User centred design,Multimedia,Personalization |
DocType | ISBN | Citations |
Conference | 978-1-4503-5621-3 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 15 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Matthew Pateman | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Daniel Harrison | 2 | 61 | 3.08 |
| Paul Marshall | 3 | 97 | 7.01 |
| Marta E. Cecchinato | 4 | 76 | 8.54 |