Gaming the quantified self
Author(s): Whitson, Jennifer R. Abstract: Gamification combines the playful design and feedback mechanisms from games with users' social profiles (e.g. Facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn) in non-game applications. Successful gamification practices are reliant on...
Personal informatics in chronic illness management
Author(s): Haley MacLeodAnthony TangSheelagh Carpendale Abstract: Many people with chronic illness suffer from debilitating symptoms or episodes that inhibit normal day-to-day function. Pervasive tools offer the possibility to help manage these conditions,...
Quantifying the body: Monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Mobile and wearable digital devices and related Web 2.0 apps and social media tools offer new ways of monitoring, measuring and representing the human body. They are capable of producing detailed biometric data that may be...
Quantifying Self-Organization with Optimal Predictors
Author(s): Milovanović, MilošRajković, Milan Abstract: Despite broad interest in self-organizing systems, there are few quantitative, experimentally applicable criteria for self-organization. The existing criteria all give counter-intuitive results for important...
Personal informatics for learning
Author(s): Santos Odriozola, Jose Luis Klerkx, Joris Duval, Erik Abstract: Learning analytics dashboards support learners and teachers by enabling awareness, reflection, sensemaking and improved understanding of learning behavior. Our experiments show that many such...
QS Spiral : Visualizing Periodic Quantified Self Data
Author(s): Larsen, Jakob EgCuttone, AndreaLehmann, Sune Abstract: In this paper we propose an interactive visualization technique QS Spiral that aims to capture the periodic properties of quantified self data and let the user explore those recurring patterns. The...
The power of mobile notifications to increase wellbeing logging behavior
Author(s): Frank Bentley Konrad Tollmar Abstract: Self-logging is a critical component to many wellbeing systems. However, self-logging often is difficult to sustain at regular intervals over many weeks. We demonstrate the power of passive mobile notifications to...
Does integration increase life satisfaction ?
Author: Koczan, Zsoka Abstract: In recent years there has been a rapidly increasing interest in measuring subjective well-being in economics; most of the literature on immigrants has however continued to focus on ‘objective’ measures of integration such as employment...
What really happened on September 15th 2008? Getting The Most from Your Personal Information with Memacs
Author(s): Voit, Karl Abstract: Combining and summarizing meta-data from various kinds of data sources is one possible solution to the data fragmentation we are suffering from. Multiple projects have addressed this issue already. This paper presents a new approach...
Personal Informatics and Reflection: A Critical Examination of the Nature of Reflection
Author(s): Afarin Pirzadeh Li He Erik Stolterman Abstract: Personal informatics systems that help people both collect and reflect on various kinds of personal information are growing rapidly. Despite the importance of journaling and the main role it has in tracking...