Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

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C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_22

22. Fitbit for Developers: Self-Monitoring at Work

André N. Meyer¹ , Thomas Fritz¹ and Thomas Zimmermann²

(1)

University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

(2)

Microsoft Research, Bellevue, Washington, USA

 

Self-Monitoring to Quantify Our Lives

Recently, we have seen an explosion in the number of devices and apps that we can use to track various aspects of our lives, such as the steps we walk, the quality of our sleep, or the calories we consume. People use devices such as the Fitbit activity tracker to increase and maintain their physical activity level by tracking their behavior, setting goals (e.g., 10,000 steps ...