Affordances for self-tracking wearable devices
Amon Rapp, Federica Cena · 2015
Wearable devices for self-tracking are gradually spreading on the market, allowing people to monitor their own behaviors almost everywhere at every time. However, their integration in people's daily life poses a variety of challenges. In this landscape the concept of affordance becomes crucial: it can reframe the design of wearable devices by focusing it on their "smart materiality".