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As Simple as Possible but No Simpler: Creating Flexibility in Personal Informatics

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Lenitra Durham,

Sangita Sharma,

Rita H. WouhaybiAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1445 - 1452

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892541

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

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Personal informatics has become a widespread practice, yet even expert users still face challenges in synthesizing and making sense of data. We suggest that these challenges are related to the complexities introduced once personal context is taken seriously. Through ethnographic research in the Quantified Self community, and an iterative software design process for a project called Data Sense, we offer early indications of what those challenges are, and describe how we approached solving them. We found that users had an easier time of working with data when they could use their own files, when temporal recurrences were surfaced and reminded them of other patterns, and when they could "grab" data directly from visualizations. However, the system did require more user learning than we anticipated.

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As Simple as Possible but No Simpler: Creating Flexibility in Personal Informatics
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DOI:10.1145/2851581

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Sarzotti F(2018)Self-Monitoring of Emotions and Mood Using a Tangible ApproachComputers10.3390/computers70100077:1(7)Online publication date: 8-Jan-2018
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Rapp ATirabeni L(2018)Personal Informatics for SportACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/319682925:3(1-30)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2018
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