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Figure 1: Most frequently used behaviour changing techniques in apps (Conroy et al. 2014, p. 650; Middelweerd et al. 2014, p. 8) Theoretical context and hypotheses The process of big data related interaction has already been extensively studied in the course of the ABIDA (Assessing Big Data) project, which resulted in the big data process model shown in Fig. 2. Figure 2: The big data process model (cf. Weyer et al. 2018, p. 74) This model mainly consists of three phases: data generation, data analysis and data use, e.g. for controlling whole sociotechnical systems. In the first phase, data is being generated through the interaction of users and machines, the former of which creates information (e.g. through physical activity) that is then transformed into data by the latter. Subsequently, data is evaluated by 39