Designing Personal Informatics to Support Setting and Changing Health Goals
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Abstract
Personal informatics are tools used to support collection and reflection on behavioral data, and these tools support various health goals. As people experience transitions and different stages to their life, their needs, priorities, and goals change. However, people often face challenges with applying these changes to their personal informatics tools. This research investigates how personal informatics tools can support changing goals through ethnographic studies, the design and development of tools, and evaluation of these tools. This contributes to the understanding how personal informatics can support long-term goal setting.
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