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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 12.
Published in final edited form as: Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst. 2016 May;2016:1109–1113. doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858045

Table 1. Participant perspectives on life after tracking grouped by reason for abandonment. The first row shows the cumulative percentage of each reason for why people stop tracking.

Reason for abandoning tracking
Cost of collecting and integrating Cost of having or sharing the data Discomfort with the information revealed Data quality concerns Learned enough Life circumstances change
Activity 45.6% 2.9% 5.9% 5.9% 11.8% 13.2%
No effect 22.1% 1.5% 1.5% 2.9% 4.4% 1.5%
Frustration 10.3% 0% 1.5% 1.5% 0% 0%
Guilt 16.2% 0% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 5.9%
Freedom 2.9% 0% 1.5% 0% 0% 2.9%
Use skills 1.5% 0% 0% 1.5% 8.8% 1.5%
Location 42.9% 45.2% 0% 9.5% 0% 2.4%
No effect 21.4% 7.1% 0% 4.8% 0% 2.4%
Frustration 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Guilt 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Freedom 16.7% 33.3% 0% 4.8% 0% 0%
Use skills 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Finances 57.1% 1.8% 5.4% 0% 14.3% 10.7%
No effect 25.0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 3.6%
Frustration 5.4% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1.8%
Guilt 8.9% 0% 1.8% 0% 0% 5.4%
Freedom 17.9% 1.8% 3.6% 0% 1.8% 3.6%
Use skills 7.1% 0% 0% 0% 14.3% 0%