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Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics
John Rooksby, Mattias Rost, Alistair Morrison, Matthew Chalmers University of Glasgow
Personal Tracking
• Physical Devices
• Fitbit, Nike Fuelband, Jawbone Up, pedometers
• Mobile phone apps
• Runkeeper, MyFitnessPal
Quantified Self & Personal Informatics
• Quantified Self - Optimization
• PI: Finance, communication, photography, travel, etc
• Li et al:
• Preparation, collection, integration, reflection, action
• “choose what they are going to do with the newfound understanding of themselves”
Activity Tracking Research
• Research focused on researcher-supplied technology – not on technology people use
• Do people change behaviour because they use technology, or do they use technology because they want to change?
Method
• 22 Unstructured Interviews + follow-up interviews
• 10-90 minutes
Participants• 12M, 10F, 20s (11), 30s (8), 40s (3)
• UK, America, Europe, China, India
• Students, Admins, Finance, Nurse, Unemployed
• Able bodied, 7 runners, 2 training for marathons, 1 cross-country race, serious cyclist, 6 regular sports players, 8 no exercise but walking, 7 obese, 1 weight-loss surgery
• Most concerned about weight, all but two on a diet
Activities• Walking
• Physical exercise (running, cycling, swimming)
• Food and Drink
• Weight and size
• Sleep
• Nothing “pretty watch”
What to track with what
• Selective Tracking
• Switching between Trackers
Styles of tracking• Directive Tracking
• Documentary Tracking
• Diagnostic Tracking
• Collecting Rewards
• Fetished Tracking
Interweaving Trackers
• More than one tracker at once, including crossover functionality
• Often one tracker per activity
• Not to rationally organize their data
Using Data
• Some care about accuracy, others don’t mind
• Some shake their pedometers, some would not
Temporality of Data
• Mainly short term. (Should I go for a run?)
• Compare to previous measurement
• Some accrue long-term data, but rarely look at it
Social Tracking
• All said they did not share to social networks (but did among friends)
• Used as a co-present activity
• Symbol of shared outlook (concerned colleagues)
Lived Informatics
• Tracking is an emotional endeavour (c.f. Li et al.)
• Tracking is about where you are heading in life – not where you have been
• Not doing data analysis about their bodies – but doing something deeply emotional and often passionately focused on a future
Thanks
• http://www.softwarepopulations.com/
• @johnrooksby, @rrostt, @MorrisonAJ
• http://rost.me
Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics John Rooksby, Mattias Rost, Alistair Morrison, Matthew Chalmers
Design implications?• People are not rational data scientists -> look at app
use
• Social Tracking -> consider co-presence rather than social media sharing
• Support interweaving besides integration
• Evaluate more than improvements in activity -> consider emotionality, hope, and fun
• Attend to the physicality