The Value of Location Lifelogging for Health & Wellness

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

The Value of Location Lifelogging for Health & Wellness

Adrienne H. Andrew, Kevin Eustice, Andy [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

ARO, Inc


Motivation

• Location lifelogging plays an important role in providing context for behavior

• Will enable us to build more effective, impactful tools


What and Why?

• The problem we are addressing is in supporting people in behavior changes around health and wellness.

• The growth of self-monitoring tools has enabled many people to more closely monitor aspects of their health and wellness.

• These tools are unable to provide any smart guidance or wisdom about what to do about that information.


Outline

• What is location lifelogging? • Making sense of location traces: – Identifying stays versus travels– Identifying roles of stays and travels– Recognizing patterns, routines and drift– Defining cohorts

• Incorporating health & wellness data


Location Lifelogging

• Logging location traces of your life• Examples:– Google Latitude, Foursquare, PlaceMe, Moves,

Quadstreaker, Chronos• Challenges: – Battery life– Availability– Value! Making sense of the data



Making Sense of Location Traces

• Identifying stays versus travels• Identifying roles of stays and travels• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift• Defining cohorts


Stays versus Travels

• Goal: Identify periods of traveling versus periods of staying in one place.

• Challenges for real-time detection: – When is the transition between a travel and a

stay?– How long does someone have to stay in one place

to qualify as a stay?



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Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna Blvd





Identifying Roles

• Roles capture the semantic meaning of place to an individual– “Home”– “Work”– “Commute to work”

• Challenges:– Different places have different roles for different

people• The grocery store



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Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home





Morning Commute

Evening Commute





Recognizing Routine and Patterns

• Goal: – Identify recurring patterns in places

• Challenge:– It’s unclear how long patterns exist– It’s unclear how long it takes to determine a

pattern• Has the pattern changed by the time we recognize it? • Do some people have more routinized patterns than

others?











Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday






Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4





Cohort Identification

• Goal: – Identify groups of people who are similar in ways

other than primary demographics• Challenge:– Need many people for meaningful cohorts

• Value: – Provide insight into behavior• Identify role models & support partners



Combining Location with Health and Wellness Data






Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Visits to the Soccer Field










Calories Burned





Calories Burned

Steps Taken





Calories Burned

Steps Taken

Calories Consumed


Impact on health and wellness

• Problem solving• Contextual understanding• Contextual reminders/information– Intervention opportunity?

• Recognizing drift


THANK YOU!

Questions? Comments? Want to talk more? Adrienne Andrew

ARO, [email protected]


• People who want to change but struggle don’t know why

• People are bad at describing what they do and why they do it

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The Value of Location Lifelogging for Health & Wellness