California National Do Fitness Trackers Improve Health Research paper

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RESEARCH PROJECT ASSIGNMENT Explore an ethical or social issue surrounding some aspect of information technology FINAL DRAFT SPECIFICATIONS Do Fitness Trackers Improve Health? LENGTH 900-1200 words (not including citation page) FORMAT Please use APA citation style. (If you are majoring in English, you may use MLA instead.). AUDIENCE Address your paper to a general audience. Your classmates have a wide range of backgrounds and academic interests; assume this kind of broad readership when you write your paper. Assume that your readers are not specialists in your topic area. Ideas must be fully explained and made accessible to a general readership. SOURCES Your research should emphasize peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles from the National University library’s databases. (Be assured that the database search skills you develop will have applications beyond NU.) Reference as many sources as needed in order to substantively explore your research question, but no fewer than 4. 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Running head: DO FITNESS TRACKERS IMPROVE HEALTH?

Do Fitness Trackers Improve Health?
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DO FITNESS TRACKERS IMPROVE HEALTH?

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Do Fitness Trackers Improve Health?
Fitness trackers, also known as activity trackers are wearable devices that keep track of
changes in fitness parameters including distance covered by an individual either by walking or
running, calorie consumed in a meal, heartbeat, and quality of sleep. ABI Research predicts that
approximately 13 million devices would be adopted in corporate wellness programs in the
United States (Wooldridge, 2014). Most trackers use the heart rate as a function of calories burnt
and motion sensors for distance and speed of movement. The common belief is that technology
encourages users to adopt healthier habits such as taking enough water in a day, eating healthy,
and exercising enough. Nevertheless, some critics doubt the effectiveness of the devices. Most
important is the question of accuracy. As the technology becomes common, it is essential to
evaluate the significant impact of the trackers to the user’s health.
Buyer motivation
Wearable trackers may be worn for fashion like any jewelry or watch as well as health
monitors. The motivation behind the decision to purchase vary from one individual to another.
However, according to Woods, the sale of fitness trackers to smartwatches are in the ratio of 3:1
in favor of the trackers. However, the functionality gap between smartwatches an...


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