Improvement Potential of Business Models and Usability of Fitness Apps: Results of Expert Interviews and a User Study

Leon Griesch, Kurt Sandkuhl

2023

Abstract

Mobile applications (apps) supporting individual users in their personal fitness have received growing interest on the user side and in the research community. The value offered to fitness app users in general consists of support for changing attitude and behaviour towards a healthy lifestyle and maintaining this behaviour. Work presented in this paper aims at contributing to this field by focusing on the following main research question: what improvement potential exists for fitness apps that at the same time are contributing to the business model and desired from a user’s perspective? The contributions of this paper are (1) market and functionality analysis of fitness apps, (2) results of expert interviews on functionality and scenarios with business model improvement potential, and (3) results of a user study on desired improvements from a usability perspective.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Griesch L. and Sandkuhl K. (2023). Improvement Potential of Business Models and Usability of Fitness Apps: Results of Expert Interviews and a User Study. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-631-6, SciTePress, pages 514-521. DOI: 10.5220/0011780600003414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf23,
author={Leon Griesch and Kurt Sandkuhl},
title={Improvement Potential of Business Models and Usability of Fitness Apps: Results of Expert Interviews and a User Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2023},
pages={514-521},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011780600003414},
isbn={978-989-758-631-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Improvement Potential of Business Models and Usability of Fitness Apps: Results of Expert Interviews and a User Study
SN - 978-989-758-631-6
AU - Griesch L.
AU - Sandkuhl K.
PY - 2023
SP - 514
EP - 521
DO - 10.5220/0011780600003414
PB - SciTePress