Smart fitness devices like Fitbits could help change your behaviors with this new approach

By asking short, digitally delivered questions, associate professor Stephen Intille hopes to get a more complete picture of people’s health—and ultimately make fitness trackers work better for people. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Smart fitness trackers are actually pretty dumb, and when it comes to self-reporting your activity, you aren’t much better. But with this new approach, devices like Fitbits could not just better track your behaviors—they could help you change them.

In this episode, we talk to Stephen Intille (associate professor of computer sciences and health sciences).

by Aria Bracci

March 3, 2020

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