No longer wearing: investigating the abandonment of personal health-tracking technologies on craigslist

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ubiquitous Computing

• Publication date

  2015-09-07

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/2750858.2807554
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