Enabling foresight and reflection: Interactive simulations tosupport behaviour change

By Lisa Koeman, Yvonne Rogers & Jon BirdICRI Cities · April 2013 · CHI Personal Informatics Workshop

Personal informatics toolsgenerally try to support

behaviour change

There is a strong focus onself-reflection using

previously collected data

Furthermore, goals,(dis)incentives and comparisons

are used to motivate people

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But short term gains remainof more interest than long term goals

How can we support long term thinking?

Possibly by facilitating foresight:insight into the consequences behaviour

changes will have in the future

Seeing we are poor at linking our behaviour to proven effects, visualising explicit

predictions might help with:

Answering “what if?” questions

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Setting and achieving goals

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Calculation

Interaction

Visualisation

Multi-faceted systemto support sustainable lifestyles

for urban inhabitants

Thanks!

For any questions or comments, please get in touch:

Lisa KoemanIntel Collaborative Research Institute

on Sustainable Connected CitiesUniversity College London

lisa.koeman.12@ucl.ac.ukhttp://www.cities.io