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Bench Tracker: Improving Actionable Insights In Smartwatch Fitness Application By Increasing Usability Through Simplification, Chris Campanelli
Bench Tracker: Improving Actionable Insights In Smartwatch Fitness Application By Increasing Usability Through Simplification, Chris Campanelli
Faculty of Applied Science and Technology - Exceptional Student Work, Applied Computing Theses
This thesis describes a smartwatch solution, called Bench Tracker for fitness monitoring using Apple Watches and Apple iPhone devices. The system involves a mobile based application that allows users to track and monitor bench press workouts in real-time to create actionable insights. By creating actionable insights on a smartwatch application, and improving the application’s usability through simplification, users agreed they would use the fitness application created that specifically tracked bench presses. A leading fitness app was used as the comparator, and it was discovered that users were undecided if they would use this app for bench press tracking. This paper …