Sensemaking Challenges in Personal Informatics and Self-Monitoring Systems

Simon Jones; Ryan Kelly

Sensemaking Challenges in Personal Informatics and Self-Monitoring Systems

Simon Jones, Ryan Kelly

Department of Computer Science

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Personal informatics (PI) systems, which aggregate and analyse personal data from activity tracking devices and lifelogging services, have been shown to provide benefits in health and wellbeing settings. In this workshop paper we report a preliminary analysis of interviews with users of a personal informatics system and discuss the challenges that these users encounter in making sense of their data. We identify four challenges that may have implications for the use of PI systems in a health context, which we propose to discuss at the WISH workshop with other researchers who have considered self-monitoring from health and sensemaking perspectives.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WISH 2016 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare
Place of Publication	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2016
Event	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016) - California, San Jose, USA United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016)
Country/Territory	USA United States
City	San Jose
Period	7/05/16 → 12/05/16

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Sensemaking Challenges in Personal Informatics and Self-Monitoring Systems. / Jones, Simon; Kelly, Ryan.
WISH 2016 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016): Association for Computing Machinery, 2016.

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Jones, S & Kelly, R 2016, Sensemaking Challenges in Personal Informatics and Self-Monitoring Systems. in WISH 2016 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare. Association for Computing Machinery, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016), ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016), San Jose, USA United States, 7/05/16. <https://wish2016chi.wordpress.com/program/>

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