What Gets Measured Gets Done : Can Self-Tracking Technologies Enhance Advice Compliance?
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2020-08-01
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en
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281-298
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Journal of Service Research, Volume 23, issue 3
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Self-tracking technologies (STTs) in the form of smart devices and mobile applications enable consumers to monitor, analyze, and interpret personal performance data on health and physical or financial well-being. As a result of self-tracking, consumers are not only expected to check their personal performance more actively but also to implement service professionals’ advice to improve their well-being more accurately. Despite the growing popularity of STTs, empirical evidence on the extent to which STT use enhances advice compliance remains scant. A field experiment with 538 participants in a health-care setting suggests that STT use does not increase advice compliance per se. Rather, the effectiveness of STTs depends on consumers’ self-efficacy. For consumers low in self-efficacy, STT use can even undermine advice compliance. A lab experiment with 831 participants replicates and generalizes the findings to a nonmedical professional service (i.e., fitness training). As assessments of self-efficacy might be difficult in practice, service providers in health care can use consumers’ body mass index as an easy-to-measure proxy to predict STT effectiveness. Finally, the lab experiment also identifies perceived empowerment and personalization as psychological mechanisms mediating the influence of STT use on advice compliance.Description
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advice compliance, field experiment, Quantified Self, self-efficacy, self-tracking technology, smart devices, technology adoption
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Wittkowski, K, Klein, J F, Falk, T, Schepers, J J L, Aspara, J & Bergner, K N 2020, ' What Gets Measured Gets Done : Can Self-Tracking Technologies Enhance Advice Compliance? ', Journal of Service Research, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 281-298 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670520904424