Reflections on 5 years of personal informatics: Rising concerns and emerging directions

by | May 1, 2016 | Research Publications

Author(s):

  • Ayobi, Amid
  • Marshall, Paul
  • Cox, Anna L.

Abstract:

The real world use and design of personal informatics has been increasingly explored in HCI research in the last five years. However, personal informatics research is still a young multidisciplinary area of concern facing unrecognised methodological differences and offering unarticulated design challenges. In this review, we analyse how personal informatics has been approached so far using the Grounded Theory Literature Review method. We identify a (1) psychologically, (2) phenomenologically, and (3) humanistically informed stream and provide guidance on the design of future personal informatics systems by mapping out rising concerns and emerging research directions.

Document:

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892406

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