Research Participants Needed to Evaluate Fitness Tracking Technology
A fitness tracker from www.Fitbit.com.
The Department of Information Systems at the University of Arkansas is seeking participants for evaluating Fitness Tracking Technology. If you are over the age of 18 and motivated to improve your physical activity level, you may be eligible to participate in the study. The study involves completing brief questionnaires and wearing the fitness tracker (Fitbit Flex) for a week.
Why participate? A one-week free trial of Fitbit Flex (a $100 value fitness tracker), entering a drawing for one of five Fitbit Flex trackers, and contributing to an area of emerging research that could directly affect how fitness trackers are designed.
If you are interested in participating and would like to get more details about the study and your eligibility to participate, please take couple of minutes to check the following link survey page.
Please contact the principal investigator via email at asoror@walton.uark.edu if you have any questions. This study has been approved by the University of Arkansas Institutional Review Board for Human Studies.
Contacts
Amr Soror, doctoral candidate
Information Systems Department
479-301-0593,
asoror@walton.uark.edu
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