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Opportunities and challenges for self-experimentation in self-tracking

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Julie A. Kientz,

Sean A. Munson,

Roger Vilardaga,

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UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 991 - 996

https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800949

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Personal informatics applications support capture and access of data related to an increasing variety of dimensions of everyday life. However, such applications often fail to effectively support diagnostic self-tracking, wherein people seek to answer a specific question about themselves. Current approaches are therefore difficult, tedious, and error-prone. This workshop paper discusses our ongoing efforts to develop methods for self-experimentation in self-tracking. We examine how self-experimentation situates within existing models of personal informatics processes, discuss our current focus on personal food triggers in patients suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and highlight open challenges for self-experimentation more broadly.

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Index Terms

Opportunities and challenges for self-experimentation in self-tracking
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Sensors and actuators

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UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

September 2015

1626 pages

ISBN:9781450335751

DOI:10.1145/2800835

General Chairs:
Kenji Mase
Nagoya University, JP
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Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), CH
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IDIAP-EPFL, CH
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Lancaster University, UK
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Cornell University
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Univerisity of Tokyo, JP

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