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The role of community in exercise: cross-cultural study of online exercise diary users

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C&T '13: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

Pages 55 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/2482991.2483006

Published: 29 June 2013 Publication History

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This study investigates users of a newly launched website aimed at tracking exercise activities. The data was collected through an online questionnaire with 282 respondents. Three nationalities, Spanish, Germans and Americans, were compared, and the results show that their relation to community aspects of the service was significantly different. The Spanish showed most interest in collaboration and creation of new contacts, whereas Germans were the least interested in these activities. The finding may be explained by the differences of these national cultures along the individualism-collectivism dimension of Hofstede's cultural theory. Across the nationalities, the users were foremost motivated by using the website for promoting their individual goals in exercise.

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Index Terms

The role of community in exercise: cross-cultural study of online exercise diary users
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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Ehrlén V(2021)Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data onlineLeisure Studies10.1080/02614367.2020.1869289(1-16)Online publication date: 3-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2020.1869289
Lachner FNguyen MButz ABouhlel MJere N(2018)Culturally sensitive user interface designProceedings of the Second African Conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving Communities10.1145/3283458.3283459(1-12)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3283458.3283459
Lachner FFincke FButz A(2017)UX Metrics: Deriving Country-Specific Usage Patterns of a Website Plug-In from Web AnalyticsHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 201710.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_11(142-159)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_11

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