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Co-creating Personal Meaning Visualizations for Health Trackers
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As wearable technologies continue to evolve, smartwatches have become key tools for health monitoring and disease management, allowing users to track real-time data such as steps, heart rate, and activity levels. While these devices are powerful, their visualizations often remain generic and impersonal, leading to decreased motivation and short-term engagement. This thesis explores how customizable smartwatch watchfaces, co-designed around users’ personal interests, can transform health tracking into a more meaningful and engaging experience. Through a two-phase user study, participants first co-created their own watchfaces based on personally meaningful objects, hobbies, or symbols. These designs were then implemented using Watch Face Studio and evaluated in daily use to understand how customization influences engagement and interaction with health data. Findings show that customization enhanced emotional connection and sustained motivation by allowing participants to embed aspects of their identity into the watchface. Engagement was driven by ownership and enjoyment, while the structuring of health goals, such as daily steps, was shaped by individual preferences and routines. Participants valued simplicity, aesthetic pleasure, and meaning over purely numerical feedback, and some even adapted their objectives to their changing contexts. However, results also highlight the need for guided customization and evolving designs to prevent fatigue over time. By combining personal meaning with glanceable health data, this work demonstrates how smartwatch visualizations can go beyond monitoring, becoming expressive, motivating, and personally relevant tools for everyday well-being.
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Tese de mestrado, Informática, 2026, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências
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customization health tracking watchface visualization engagement personal meaning