Fitness trackers may be hiding what really matters about movement
A new workshop challenges how activity apps measure and represent physical movement, arguing that the data they capture distorts lived experience and misses crucial health dimensions. The findings matter to fitness tech companies and health policymakers designing the next generation of movement monitoring tools.
Originaltitel: Moving and crafting data together: critical and feminist perspectives on technologies for movement through movement
<p>There is a growing interest in navigating the tensions between emerging technologies designed for movement and physical activity, and how people (mis)use and appropriate them. These include whether technologies are helpful or harmful, enhance or distort lived experiences, and the gap between what data captures, how it is represented and visualized, and what it inevitably renders invisible. This 1-day workshop aims to bring together interaction designers, HCI researchers, and practitioners who engage in movement and physical activity to unpack, explore, and critique these tensions (and beyond) through movement. Together, we will participate in a guided movement session, collect various forms of data, and craft representations of these data to foster reflection and critique. Our workshop aims to contribute to developing a shared design agenda to interrogate, challenge, and reshape the future of digital technologies and data that foster engagement with movement and physical activity beyond quantification and static data representations.</p>