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- research-articleAugust 2024
Flexible Minimalist Self-Tracking to Support Individual Reflection
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 31, Issue 3Article No.: 30, Pages 1–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3660339Self-tracking technology can help users develop new knowledge about themselves, supporting their health and general wellbeing. Most of these devices inform users about their lives by autonomously generating data about highly constrained topics. Recent ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Designing for Participatory Data Governance: Insights from People with Parkinson's
DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferencePages 541–555https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661529In today’s age of data-driven healthcare, the growing utilization of health data to inform critical aspects of patient care and medical research places an ever increasing significance on its governance. This study aims to explore the perspectives of ...
- ArticleJune 2024
Open Issues in Persuasive Technologies: Six HCI Challenges for the Design of Behavior Change Systems
AbstractPersuasive technologies are increasing in popularity due to the widespread availability of devices that are able to automatically collect and process behavioral data. However, most of these technologies merely focus on the behavior to be changed, ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Exploring Context-Aware Mental Health Self-Tracking Using Multimodal Smart Speakers in Home Environments
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 699, Pages 1–18https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642846People with mental health issues often stay indoors, reducing their outdoor activities. This situation emphasizes the need for self-tracking technology in homes for mental health research, offering insights into their daily lives and potentially ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Unpacking the Lived Experience of Collaborative Pregnancy Tracking
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 815, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642652Pregnancy brings physical, emotional, and economic challenges for expectant parent(s), close relatives, and friends. Existing technology support, including tracking technology, largely targets pregnant people and ignores other stakeholders. We therefore ...
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- research-articleMay 2024
Exploring the Effectiveness of Time-lapse Screen Recording for Self-Reflection in Work Context
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 1029, Pages 1–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642469Effective self-tracking in working contexts empowers individuals to explore and reflect on past activities. Recordings of computer activities contain rich metadata that can offer valuable insight into users’ previous tasks and endeavors. However, ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Exploring the impact of commercial wearable activity trackers on body awareness and body representations: A mixed-methods study on self-tracking
- Arianna Boldi,
- Alessandro Silacci,
- Marc-Olivier Boldi,
- Mauro Cherubini,
- Maurizio Caon,
- Noé Zufferey,
- Kévin Huguenin,
- Amon Rapp
AbstractWearable trackers are believed to enhance users' self-knowledge, but their impact on the relationship that people have with their own bodies is relatively unexplored. This study aims to shed light on the potential of physiological data collected ...
Highlights- We conducted a mixed-methods study to explore whether a Fitbit can affect how users relate to their own bodies.
- 225 participants in the quantitative study wore a Fitbit for 4 months and answered a set of questionnaires.
- For the ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Self-report user interfaces for patients with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: App review and usability experiments with mobile user interface components
Computers and Graphics (CGRS), Volume 117, Issue CPages 61–72https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2023.10.009AbstractRheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs) affect 120 million Europeans and are responsible for joint inflammation, stiffness, pain, and fatigue. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), essential to diagnosis and treatment adjustments, are ...
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Highlights- In-line selectors are the UI component that affords the best user performance for patients with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases.
- Column selectors are perceived as the most usable by patients with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal ...
- ArticleAugust 2023
Perception Versus Reality: How User Self-reflections Compare to Actual Data
AbstractOne of the main promises of wearable sensing devices capable of physiological tracking is the potential that users can leverage the technology to make positive life changes. Now that these devices have sufficient accuracy, it is feasible that ...
- ArticleAugust 2023
Eliciting Meaningful Collaboration Metrics: Design Implications for Self-Tracking Technologies at Work
AbstractAs the workplace collaboration software market is booming, there is an opportunity to design tools to support reflection and self-regulation of collaboration practices. Building on approaches from personal informatics (PI), we aim to understand ...
- ArticleAugust 2023
Motivating Children’s Engagement with Sleep Diaries Through Storytelling
AbstractChildren often experience sleep problems that can negatively impact their well-being and development. Clinicians ask parents to record in a journal information about their child’s sleep, but such parental reports can be biased. Sleep diaries ...
- research-articleJuly 2023
Everyday Space as an Interface for Health Data Engagement: Designing Tangible Displays of Stress Data
DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferencePages 1648–1659https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596096Health data user engagement, particularly with stress data, remains a challenge despite the widespread use of self-tracking products, like smartwatches and smart bracelets. Stress data engagement is crucial to the early detection and intervention of ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
Personal Informatics at the Office: User-Driven, Situated Sensor Kits in the Workplace
CHIWORK '23: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for WorkArticle No.: 5, Pages 1–13https://doi.org/10.1145/3596671.3598577Workplaces are increasingly leveraging data-driven technological interventions to optimize employee productivity, health, and wellbeing. Yet employees are rarely involved in designing these initiatives, nor have access to the data collected to act upon ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Sleep Planning with Awari: Uncovering the Materiality of Body Rhythms using Research through Design
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 686, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581502With the increasing adoption of body tracking technology, users are able to collect bio-data which designers struggle to make legible or actionable. This work focused on increasing this technology-mediated bodily understanding through exploring the ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Putting the Self in Self-Tracking: The Value of a Co-Designed ‘How Might You’ Self-Tracking Guide for Teenagers
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 340, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580938Although teenagers engage with Personal Informatics tools to track their health and fitness, many do so without adequate guidance, and they express concerns regarding the potential for these practices to bring harm. Further research is needed to ...
- research-articleMarch 2023
Mood Measurement on Smartphones: Which Measure, Which Design?
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 7, Issue 1Article No.: 29, Pages 1–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3580864Mood, often studied using smartphones, influences human perception, judgment, thought, and behavior. Mood measurements on smartphones face challenges concerning the selection of a proper mood measure and its transfer, or translation, into a digital ...
- ArticleMarch 2023
Self-tracking to Manage Chronic Illness: Exploring User Agency in Apps for Diabetes Self-management
Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, InclusivityPages 306–314https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_25AbstractSelf-tracking through wearable devices and mobile applications is becoming increasingly common, especially for health measures. In particular, self-tracking tools hold great potential to help patients with chronic illnesses with self-management, ...
- abstractFebruary 2023
Improving Collaboration Experiences and Skills: An Open-ended, User-Driven Self-Tracking Approach for Education
TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionArticle No.: 71, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3576220Collaboration is considered an essential skill necessary for work and life in the 21st century. It is hence necessary to support students in developing this skill, whose necessity is amplified by hybrid work and globalization. In this vision, we bring ...
- research-articleNovember 2022
NoteWordy: Investigating Touch and Speech Input on Smartphones for Personal Data Capture
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 6, Issue ISSArticle No.: 581, Pages 568–591https://doi.org/10.1145/3567734Speech as a natural and low-burden input modality has great potential to support personal data capture. However, little is known about how people use speech input, together with traditional touch input, to capture different types of data in self-tracking ...
- research-articleOctober 2022
Scrapbook: Screenshot-Based Bookmarks for Effective Digital Resource Curation across Applications
UIST '22: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and TechnologyArticle No.: 96, Pages 1–13https://doi.org/10.1145/3526113.3545678Modern knowledge workers typically need to use multiple resources, such as documents, web pages, and applications, at the same time. This complexity in their computing environments forces workers to restore various resources in the course of their ...