AUTHOR=Hancı Elçin , Ruijten Peter A. M. , Lacroix Joyca , IJsselsteijn Wijnand A. TITLE=The Impact of Mindset on Self-Tracking Experience JOURNAL=Frontiers in Digital Health VOLUME=3 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2021.676742 DOI=10.3389/fdgth.2021.676742 ISSN=2673-253X ABSTRACT=
Self-tracking technologies aim to offer a better understanding of ourselves through data, create self-awareness, and facilitate healthy behavior change. Despite such promising objectives, very little is known about whether the implicit beliefs users may have about the changeability of their own behavior influence the way they experience self-tracking. These implicit beliefs about the permanence of the abilities are called mindsets; someone with a fixed mindset typically perceives human qualities (e.g., intelligence) as fixed, while someone with a growth mindset perceives them as amenable to change and improvement through learning. This paper investigates the concept of mindset in the context of self-tracking and uses online survey data from individuals wearing a self-tracking device (