Designing behavioral self-regulation application for preventive personal mental healthcare
Author: Hirano, Mari Ogura, Kanako Kitahara, Mizuho Sakamoto, Daisuke Shimoyama, Haruhiko Abstract: Most of computerized cognitive behavioral therapy targeted restoration and few have targeted primary prevention. The purpose of this study is to obtain the knowledge...
Dealing With Information Overload in Multifaceted Personal Informatics Systems
Author(s): Jones, Simon L.Kelly, Ryan Abstract: Personal informatics systems are tools that capture, aggregate, and analyze data from distinct facets of their users’ lives. This article adopts a mixed-methods approach to understand the problem of information overload...
Quantifying the Body and Caring for the Mind: Self-Tracking in Multiple Sclerosis
Author(s): Amid Ayobi Paul Marshall Anna L. Cox Yunan Chen Abstract: Consumer health technologies have an enormous potential to transform the self-management of chronic conditions. However, it is unclear how individuals use self-tracking technologies to manage them....
‘Depends on whos got the data’: Public understandings of personal digital dataveillance
Author(s): Lupton, DeborahMichael, Mike Abstract: Post-Snowden, several highly-publicised events and scandals have drawn attention to the use of people’s personal data by other actors and agencies, both legally and illicitly. In this article, we report the findings of...
When personal tracking becomes social: Examining the use of instagram for healthy eating
Author(s): Chung, Chia FangAgapie, ElenaSchroeder, JessicaMishra, SonaliFogarty, JamesMunson, Sean A. Abstract: Many people appropriate social media and online communities in their pursuit of personal health goals, such as healthy eating or increased physical...
A natural language query interface for searching personal information on smartwatches
Author(s): Rawassizadeh, Reza Dobbins, Chelsea Nourizadeh, Manouchehr Ghamchili, Zahra Pazzani, Michael Abstract: Currently, personal assistant systems, run on smartphones and use natural language interfaces. However, these systems rely mostly on the web for finding...
Enhancing personal informatics through social sensemaking
Author(s): Puussaar, AareClear, Adrian K.Wright, Peter Abstract: Personal informatics practices are increasingly common, with a range of consumer technologies available to support, largely individual, interactions with data (e.g., performance measurement and...
Self-tracking for mental wellness: Understanding expert perspectives and student experiences
Author(s): Kelley, ChristinaLee, BongshinWilcox, Lauren Abstract: Previous research suggests an important role for self-tracking in promoting mental wellness. Recent studies with college student populations have examined the feasibility of collecting everyday mood,...
Examining menstrual tracking to inform the design of personal informatics tools
Author(s): Epstein, Daniel A.Lee, Nicole B.Kang, Jennifer H.Agapie, ElenaSchroeder, JessicaPina, Laura R.Fogarty, JamesKientz, Julie A.Munson, Sean Abstracts: We consider why and how women track their menstrual cycles, examining their experiences to uncover design...
When fitness meets social networks: Investigating fitness tracking and social practices on WeRun
Author(s): Gui, XinningChen, YunanCaldeira, ClaraXiao, DanChen, Yunan Abstract: The last two decades have seen growing interest in promoting physical activities by using self-tracking technologies. Previous work has identified social interactions in self-tracking as a...