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Hanna Schneider
Adapting at Run-time: Exploring the Design Space of Personalized Fitness Coaches
In IUI '17 (bib)

Personal health and fitness technologies, such as activity trackers, bear the potential to impact health behaviors globally. However, most users abandon these technology quickly. Possible reasons are that provided feedback (often consisting of raw data) is not actionable, not relevant, or the provided advice is not easy to integrate into peopleâs lives. One approach to tackle this problem, is to develop personalized or adaptive digital coaches that take usersâ individual diâµerences and situation into account. Even though the first prototypes of personalized coaches have been presented and evaluated, this research is still in its infancy. In my thesis, I want to extend this research by (a) investigating the influences of individual diâµerences on behaviors and motivations to use a digital fitness coach, (2) mapping and conceptually exploring the design space of personalized digital fitness coaches, (3) and iteratively prototyping and testing adaptations of personalized fitness coaches in a user-centered design process.