![]() What Jawbone and Nike are trying to do is convert as many people from the 90 percent to the 10 percent by targeting those who have personalities best fit for each device. Arizona State’s Gabriel Koepp told me that those who use one activity tracker religiously - the 10 percent - don’t experiment with other trackers because the one they have works best for them. The best way of doing that has yet to be figured out, both Jawbone and Nike are trying to make activity data more timely over time by narrowing in on personality. The fitness trackers that will stand apart from the rest are the ones that can make your data more relevant over time. Unfortunately, neither band gave me enough advice or added information to make tracking my data constantly worth it. ![]() I was expecting it to adjust my points automatically when a different activity was reported for a session, but that didn’t happen. Then I tried to report my run as a basketball session, but the Fuel points and the number of calories burned were the same. Sessions is supposed to allocate your Fuel points even more accurately since you tell it which activity you’re doing, however in my testing, whether or not I started a session to track my run didn’t make much difference - I gained basically the same amount of Fuel points both ways. The most generic choices are training and running, and the rest are sports like baseball, basketball, soccer, and snowboarding - if you’re not doing something on the list, you can’t make a session out of it. The activity choices, however, show how sports-focused the device is. When you’re finished, you press the button on the band or manually end the session from inside the app. You can monitor chunks of active time with the new “sessions” feature: at the start of a session, you pick the activity you’re doing from the app’s list and then just do it. It says this allows the band to know when you’re playing basketball versus walking around the block, and will give you a more accurate number of Fuel points based on the activity. Nike also claims the FuelBand can recognize different activities by using its accelerometer to detect motion on three different axes.
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