A Trip to the Moon: Personalized Animated Movies for Self-reflection
, 2018 Self-tracking physiological and psychological data poses the challenge of presentation and interpretation. Insightful narratives for self-tracking data can motivate the user towards constructive self-reflection.
Bentley Todd +6 more
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Supporting Accurate Interpretation of Self-Administered Medical Test Results for Mobile Health: Assessment of Design, Demographics, and Health Condition [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Technological advances in personal informatics allow people to track their own health in a variety of ways, representing a dramatic change in individuals’ control of their own wellness.
Baumer, Eric P.S. +9 more
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Goal-setting And Achievement In Activity Tracking Apps: A Case Study Of MyFitnessPal
, 2019 Activity tracking apps often make use of goals as one of their core motivational tools. There are two critical components to this tool: setting a goal, and subsequently achieving that goal.
Althoff, Tim +2 more
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The narrative self, distributed memory, and evocative objects [PDF]
, 2018 In this article, I outline various ways in which artifacts are interwoven with autobiographical memory systems and conceptualize what this implies for the self.
A Clark +64 more
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Information Quality Challenges of Patient-Generated Data in Clinical Practice
Frontiers in Public Health, 2017 A characteristic trend of digital health has been the dramatic increase in patient-generated data being presented to clinicians, which follows from the increased ubiquity of self-tracking practices by individuals, driven, in turn, by the proliferation of
Peter West +4 more
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Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the case of quantified cats and dogs [PDF]
, 2015 There is growing interest in technology that quantifies aspects of our lives. This paper draws on critical practice and speculative design to explore, question and problematise the ultimate consequences of such technology using the quantification of ...
Feltwell, Tom +4 more
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QuantifyMe: An Open-Source Automated Single-Case Experimental Design Platform
Sensors, 2018 Smartphones and wearable sensors have enabled unprecedented data collection, with many products now providing feedback to users about recommended step counts or sleep durations.
Sara Taylor +4 more
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Health Figures: An Open Source JavaScript Library for Health Data Visualization [PDF]
, 2016 The way we look at data has a great impact on how we can understand it, particularly when the data is related to health and wellness. Due to the increased use of self-tracking devices and the ongoing shift towards preventive medicine, better ...
Al-Musawi, Mohammed +2 more
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A Conceptual Framework for Personal Science
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2020 This paper introduces a conceptual framework to guide research and education into the practice of personal science, which we define as using empirical methods to pursue personal health questions. Personal science consists of five activities: questioning,
Gary Isaac Wolf, Martijn De Groot
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Supporting Collaborative Health Tracking in the Hospital: Patients' Perspectives [PDF]
, 2018 The hospital setting creates a high-stakes environment where patients' lives depend on accurate tracking of health data. Despite recent work emphasizing the importance of patients' engagement in their own health care, less is known about how patients ...
Elera, Rashmi G. +7 more
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