TY - JOUR AU - Landay, James A. AB - Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays Sunny Consolvo1, 2, Predrag Klasnja2, David W. McDonald2, Daniel Avrahami1, Jon Froehlich3, Louis LeGrand1, Ryan Libby3, Keith Mosher3, & James A. Landay1, 3 1 2 3 Intel Research Seattle The Information School Computer Science & Engineering Seattle, WA 98105, USA University of Washington University of Washington [sunny.consolvo, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Seattle, WA 98195, USA daniel.avrahami, [consolvo, klasnja, [jfroehli, libby, kemosher, louis.l.legrand]@intel.com dwmc]@u.washington.edu landay]@cs.washington.edu ABSTRACT Personal, mobile displays, such as those on mobile phones, are ubiquitous, yet for the most part, underutilized. We present results from a field experiment that investigated the effectiveness of these displays as a means for improving awareness of daily life (in our case, self-monitoring of physical activity). Twenty-eight participants in three experimental conditions used our UbiFit system for a period of three months in their day-to-day lives over the winter holiday season. Our results show, for example, that participants who had an awareness display were able to maintain their physical activity level (even during the holidays), while the level of physical activity for participants who did not have an awareness display dropped significantly. We discuss our results and their general TI - Flowers or a robot army?: encouraging awareness & activity with personal, mobile displays DO - 10.1145/1409635.1409644 DA - 2008-09-21 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/flowers-or-a-robot-army-encouraging-awareness-activity-with-personal-MOB24oauJc DP - DeepDyve ER -