The Long Tail Issue in Large Scale Deployment of Personal Informatics

by | Sep 1, 2014 | Research Publications

Author(s):

  • Andrea Cuttone
  • Jakob Eg Larsen

Abstract:

We describe the challenges and the open questions arising during the design and deployment of SensibleJournal, a mobile personal informatics system with interactive visualizations of mobility and social interactions based on data acquired from embedded smartphone sensors. The SensibleJournal system was evaluated in a large scale (N=136) mobile sensing field study. We report issues in deployment, limitations in user engagement and uptake, and the challenges in measuring the effect of the system.

Documentation:

https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641319

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