-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] MWAIS webinar on Building Trust in Wearables for Health Behavior (February 21) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:39:18 -0600 From: Ryan Schuetzler ryan@schuetzler.net To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Dear AIS members,

We're continuing the Midwest AIS webinar series on Friday, February 21 at noon Central time. Madhav Sharma and Dr. David Biros from Oklahoma State University will be presenting their recent paper from the MWAIS conference entitled "Building Trust in Wearables for Health Behavior." To sign up, visit https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1730697677332653069. More information on the webinar is in the abstract below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Abstract: Advances in Internet of Things (IoT) have given users the ability to monitor heart rate, calories burned, steps walked, time spent exercising, and electrical activity of the heartbeat. Although major players in the wearable industry have marketed their wearables using the health and activity tracking features, a noteworthy health behavior change has not been observed at individual or societal level. A prominent barrier to adoption of healthcare features in these devices is lack of user trust. This research conceptualizes the formation of user’s initial trust in wearables. Here, wearable systems are proposed as three-dimensional framework constituting the device, the organization (manufacturer or app-maker), and the Internet. Understanding the formation of initial trust on wearable systems’ healthcare features can lead to improvement in user’s health-related behaviors, which in turn has the potential to cause a societal change in primary healthcare delivery.

-- Ryan Schuetzler MWAIS President, 2019-2020 Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org