“Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance

Yash Babar; Jason Chan; Ben Choi

“Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance

Yash Babar, Jason Chan, Ben Choi

Information and Decision Sciences

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Abstract

Exercise tracking apps offer a novel and powerful channel to deliver behavioral interventions at a massive scale. As thousands of fitness tracking solutions emerge, the lack of systematic research quantifying their effectiveness on exercise outcomes becomes more prominent. Drawing on the motivation literature, this paper elucidates the effects of app-enabled motivation on fitness improvement. Specifically, this study examines the two most common forms of feedback available to users of exercise tracking apps, namely performance feedback and social feedback. The results of our field experiment reveal strong evidence that performance feedback and social feedback motivate fitness improvement. Furthermore, whereas the effect of social feedback diminishes over time, the effect of performance feedback remains resilient. There theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society
Subtitle of host publication	Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018
Editors	Motonari Tanabu, Dai Senoo
Publisher	Association for Information Systems
ISBN (Electronic)	9784902590838
State	Published - 2018
Event	22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: Jun 26 2018 → Jun 30 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018

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Conference	22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	6/26/18 → 6/30/18

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© PACIS 2018.

Keywords

Feedback
Field experiment
Social facilitation
Sub-goals

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Babar, Y., Chan, J., & Choi, B. (2018). “Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance. In M. Tanabu, & D. Senoo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018 (Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018). Association for Information Systems.

“Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance. / Babar, Yash; Chan, Jason; Choi, Ben.
Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018. ed. / Motonari Tanabu; Dai Senoo. Association for Information Systems, 2018. (Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Babar, Y, Chan, J & Choi, B 2018, “Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance. in M Tanabu & D Senoo (eds), Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018, Association for Information Systems, 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018, Yokohama, Japan, 6/26/18.

Babar Y, Chan J, Choi B. “Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance. In Tanabu M, Senoo D, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018. Association for Information Systems. 2018. (Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018).

Babar, Yash ; Chan, Jason ; Choi, Ben. / “Run forrest run!” : Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018. editor / Motonari Tanabu ; Dai Senoo. Association for Information Systems, 2018. (Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready?, PACIS 2018).

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“Run forrest run!”: Measuring the impact of app-enabled performance and social feedback on running performance

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