Paper Info
Title
A lived informatics model of personal informatics
Abstract
Current models of how people use personal informatics systems are largely based in behavior change goals. They do not adequately characterize the integration of self-tracking into everyday life by people with varying goals. We build upon prior work by embracing the perspective of lived informatics to propose a new model of personal informatics. We examine how lived informatics manifests in the habits of self-trackers across a variety of domains, first by surveying 105, 99, and 83 past and present trackers of physical activity, finances, and location and then by interviewing 22 trackers regarding their lived informatics experiences. We develop a model characterizing tracker processes of deciding to track and selecting a tool, elaborate on tool usage during collection, integration, and reflection as components of tracking and acting, and discuss the lapsing and potential resuming of tracking. We use our model to surface underexplored challenges in lived informatics, thus identifying future directions for personal informatics design and research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2750858.2804250
ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Lived Informatics, Personal Informatics, Self-Tracking, Lapsing, Physical Activity, Finances, Location
Personal informatics,BitTorrent tracker,Informatics,Everyday life,Computer science,Interview,Engineering informatics,Human–computer interaction,Self tracking,Behavior change
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
61
1.85
32
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel A. Epstein130821.56
An Ping21003.29
James Fogarty32343164.17
Sean A. Munson4117275.83