personal informatics and hci, ian li, june 2010

Ian Li Personal Informatics & HCI June 2010

Personal Informatics & HCI

Ian Li HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon University


Gnothi seauton.

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Know thyself.

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Personal Informatics A class of systems that help people collect and reflect on their behavior to gain self-knowledge

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Physical Activity

Finance

Health

Mood

Electricity

Diabetes

http://personalinformatics.org/tools


HCI can help with the design of personal informatics systems.

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Human-Computer Interaction The study of interaction between people and computers

Intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, and design

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Why HCI? Personal informatics systems must provide users with different kinds of support. •  Make daily usage easier and facilitate use

over a long period of time. •  Organize the data. •  Help users understand the data. •  Help users act on new knowledge.

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Alice •  20 years old •  Family history of heart

disease •  Wants to be more active,

but doesnʼt know how because sheʼs busy


1. Alice prepares.

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2. Alice collects data.

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3. Alice transcribes data.

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M T W Th F Sa Su M T

Transcribe to Excel


4. Alice reflects on the data.

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Active

Inactive Inactive



5. Alice takes action.

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Walk in the park instead of

watching TV


COLLECTION REFLECTIONPREPARATION INTEGRATION ACTION


Collection The stage when people collect information about themselves (e.g., inner thoughts, behavior, social interactions, and their immediate environment).

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Collection Barriers •  Using the tool •  Remembering •  Lack of time •  Motivation •  Finding data •  Accuracy

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Collection Barriers •  Using the tool •  Remembering •  Lack of time •  Motivation •  Finding data •  Accuracy

One problem is:“Keeping up the motivation to do so; like finding payback for the investment of time and effort.”

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Reflection The stage when people reflect on their personal information. •  Users may reflect immediately (short-term) •  Or after several days or weeks (long-term)

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Reflection Barriers •  Lack of time •  Self-criticism •  Visualization •  Interpretation •  Sparse data •  No context

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Reflection Barriers •  Lack of time •  Self-criticism •  Visualization •  Interpretation •  Sparse data •  No context

“Itʼs hard to get a holistic view of the data since the time filters are at most one month and Iʼd like to look at several months at once.”

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Properties of the Stages 1.  Barriers cascade 2.  Stages are iterative 3.  User- vs. System-driven 4.  Facets

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3. User- vs. System-driven

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User-driven System-driven



Collection

Integration

Reflection

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Collection

Integration

Reflection

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3. User- vs. System-driven Design Guideline Consider the tradeoffs between user-driven and system-driven stages.

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Introduction

Model of Personal Informatics

Collection vs. Reflection

Maintaining Compliance

Increase Use by Sharing

Easing Data Integration

Other Projects


IMPACT Different from most personal informatics systems for physical activity:

•  Collects physical activity information and context (e.g., type of activity, location, people)

•  Visualizations to help users become awareof factors in their lives that affect their physical activity.

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Two prototypes – Two studies IMPACT 1.0 Manual collection

IMPACT 2.0 Semi-automated collection

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IMPACT 1.0

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Awareness of opportunities “It turns out I get the most walking done to and from work…and walking around my neighborhood for an hour or two made a difference.” P35

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IMPACT 2.0

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No difference Compared to other systems: •  No visualizations •  Steps-only visualizations

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Long-term value Six months later, users who collected contextual information reflected on their data better.

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Short-term Reflection

Long-term Reflection

IMPACT 1.0 Manual Collection

GOOD NOT GOOD

IMPACT 2.0 Automated Collection

NOT GOOD GOOD


Introduction






Other Projects



Barriers Example Quote

Tool (13/67) “not having ready access to a computer at the time symptoms happen” P6

Memory (12/67)

“Forgetting to record it. Because I am often not at my personal computer.” P57

Lack of time (11/67)

“not difficult, time consuming at times.” P16

Finding data (7/67)

“Sometimes life isnʼt interesting enough to make me want to write it down, other times I canʼt find any worthy writing material.” P54

Accuracy (6/67)

“Guestimating mass of food matching homemade or restaurant foods against database entries” P5

Motivation (5/67)

“keeping up the motivation to do so, finding payback for the investment of time and effort.” P4


Experience Sampling Collect self-reports from users •  3 questions per self-report •  10 self-reports per day •  28 days •  840 pieces of information from user

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Experience Sampling


Experience Sampling+Feedback


Increased compliance by 23%


Maintained compliance

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Personal Insights “When I was doing something productive my mood was not high. My mood was highest when I was playing games.”

“Apparently, I am least productive with work (Word, Excel) at night when I use AIM. I never use AIM in the morning, thus much more productive with work.”

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Introduction






Other Projects


System Issues Value of self-reflection is not immediate

Low participation by users

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System Issues Value of self-reflection is not immediate Use sharing as initial motivation Low participation by users Sharing increases participation

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http://moodjam.org


Introduction






Other Projects



Barriers Example Quote

Tool (13/67) “not having ready access to a computer at the time symptoms happen” P6

Memory (12/67)

“Forgetting to record it. Because I am often not at my personal computer.” P57

Lack of time (11/67)

“not difficult, time consuming at times.” P16

Finding data (7/67)

“Sometimes life isnʼt interesting enough to make me want to write it down, other times I canʼt find any worthy writing material.” P54

Accuracy (6/67)

“Guestimating mass of food matching homemade or restaurant foods against database entries” P5

Motivation (5/67)

“keeping up the motivation to do so, finding payback for the investment of time and effort.” P4


System Issues Access to collection tool

Lack of integration of data sources

Most tools collect only one type of data

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Grafitter Access to collection tool Support multiple social media Lack of integration of data sources Cull data automatically Most tools collect only one type of data Flexible and easy-to-enter format

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Supports multiple social media Twitter Delicious Instant Messenger Blogger

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Flexible and easy-to-enter Extension of Twitter hashtags #mood(happy) Just had ice cream. A long day #work(11) and itʼs not over. Lunch with friends #lunch(amy, bob)

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http://grafitter.com


Grafitter Up since February 2009 Continuing development •  Support privacy •  Additional visualizations •  Multi-faceted reflection

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Introduction






Other Projects


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