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Disclaimer: I work at Fitbit. The Fitbit Surge's default watch display, "flare" shows radial lines for each minute you're active and dots for inactive minutes

• Brakenshire 12y ago
  That's interesting, thanks for the correction. I suppose it's more easier to include that kind of information when you have more space, with the larger screen. This, to me, seems like one of the big challenges that activity monitors are coming up against - now we have all of this data, and more and more can use it to work out what the behaviours are, how do you then boil that information down to limited, simple, intuitive visual or tactile cues that people can use to alter their behaviour in ways that they want to pursue, and improve their health. And, indeed, what is important to health - is it increasing minutes of active movement, decreasing inactive minutes, increasing aerobic exercise minutes, or is it specifically sitting which is damaging, and so on. Quite tough, but hopefully there's a lot of thought going on to tackle it behind the scenes. It also seems like something academia should be getting involved with - this is probably something which will become fundamental to human health as more and more of us are desk bound.