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- ArticleJune 2024
Open Issues in Persuasive Technologies: Six HCI Challenges for the Design of Behavior Change Systems
AbstractPersuasive technologies are increasing in popularity due to the widespread availability of devices that are able to automatically collect and process behavioral data. However, most of these technologies merely focus on the behavior to be changed, ...
- Work in ProgressMay 2024
Exploring Information Needs for Tracking to Support Using Wheelchairs in Everyday Life
CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 143, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650933Past research on wheelchair user tracking technologies has emphasized physical activity support, upper body pain alleviation, and accessibility mapping. However, little is known about what information users consider important in tracking to support their ...
DeepStress: Supporting Stressful Context Sensemaking in Personal Informatics Systems Using a Quasi-experimental Approach
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 1000, Pages 1–18https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642766Personal informatics (PI) systems are widely used in various domains such as mental health to provide insights from self-tracking data for behavior change. Users are highly interested in examining relationships from the self-tracking data, but ...
Tracking During Ramadan: Examining the Intersection of Menstrual and Religious Tracking Practices Among Muslim Women in the United States
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 689, Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642374Personal Informatics (PI) tools are crucial in helping individuals monitor their physical health, mental health, and overall well-being. Many Muslim women use multiple PI tools to support their religious and spiritual well-being alongside their health. ...
- research-articleMay 2024Best Paper
MigraineTracker: Examining Patient Experiences with Goal-Directed Self-Tracking for a Chronic Health Condition
- Yasaman S. Sefidgar,
- Carla L. Castillo,
- Shaan Chopra,
- Liwei Jiang,
- Tae Jones,
- Anant Mittal,
- Hyeyoung Ryu,
- Jessica Schroeder,
- Allison Cole,
- Natalia Murinova,
- Sean A. Munson,
- James Fogarty
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 129, Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642075Self-tracking and personal informatics offer important potential in chronic condition management, but such potential is often undermined by difficulty in aligning self-tracking tools to an individual’s goals. Informed by prior proposals of goal-directed ...
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- research-articleMay 2024
"Islamically, I am not on my period": A Study of Menstrual Tracking in Muslim Women in the US
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 686, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642006The widespread adoption of menstrual tracking applications has garnered much attention with recent research focusing on inclusive design. However, existing literature has yet to explore the impact of religious practices on menstrual tracking behavior. We ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Understanding the Effect of Reflective Iteration on Individuals’ Physical Activity Planning
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 106, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641937Many people do not get enough physical activity. Establishing routines to incorporate physical activity into people’s daily lives is known to be effective, but many people struggle to establish and maintain routines when facing disruptions. In this ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Enhancing Self-Reflection in Older Adults through Collage Making
IoT '23: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Internet of ThingsPages 236–239https://doi.org/10.1145/3627050.3631568This research investigates the use of collage-making as a tool to enhance self-reflection in older adults. The study demonstrates that participants engaged deeply in the process, achieving varying levels of reflection. However, there was hesitancy ...
- posterOctober 2023
Preliminary Study on Effect of Secretly Increasing or Decreasing Predicted Number of Steps to Promote Walking
UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputingPages 20–24https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3610683With the widespread use of wearable devices, it is becoming easier to predict the future of an individual’s behavior regarding health. However, little is known about how presenting future predictions about an individual’s behavior affects awareness and ...
- research-articleJuly 2023
VeatherReflect: Employing Weather as Qualitative Representation of Stress Data in Virtual Reality
DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferencePages 446–458https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596125While personal trackers can collect a vast amount of information about their users, the representation of such data has remained unchanged, with bar charts being the most dominant. However, to build systems that facilitate reflection and support well-...
- research-articleJuly 2023
Goals for Goal Setting: A Scoping Review on Personal Informatics
DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferencePages 2625–2641https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596087Research has extensively explored how personal informatics tools can support people's health goal setting practices. To understand the current state and reflect on the future of goal setting in personal informatics, we report the results of a scoping ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
Personal Informatics at the Office: User-Driven, Situated Sensor Kits in the Workplace
CHIWORK '23: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for WorkArticle No.: 5, Pages 1–13https://doi.org/10.1145/3596671.3598577Workplaces are increasingly leveraging data-driven technological interventions to optimize employee productivity, health, and wellbeing. Yet employees are rarely involved in designing these initiatives, nor have access to the data collected to act upon ...
- extended-abstractApril 2023
Designing Accessible Visualizations for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 487, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3577048Visualization amplifies cognition and helps a viewer see the trends, patterns, and outliers in data. However, conventional visualization tools and guidelines do not actively consider the unique needs and abilities of people with Intellectual and ...
- extended-abstractApril 2023
Physicalization from Theory to Practice: Exploring Physicalization Design across Domains
CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 360, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573824Currently, physicalization research is dominated by technology-centric explorations with limited insights into the broader domain implications. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who share an interest in using ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Sleep Planning with Awari: Uncovering the Materiality of Body Rhythms using Research through Design
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 686, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581502With the increasing adoption of body tracking technology, users are able to collect bio-data which designers struggle to make legible or actionable. This work focused on increasing this technology-mediated bodily understanding through exploring the ...
- abstractFebruary 2023
Improving Collaboration Experiences and Skills: An Open-ended, User-Driven Self-Tracking Approach for Education
TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionArticle No.: 71, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3576220Collaboration is considered an essential skill necessary for work and life in the 21st century. It is hence necessary to support students in developing this skill, whose necessity is amplified by hybrid work and globalization. In this vision, we bring ...
- research-articleOctober 2022
Designing for Extreme Sleepers: Rethinking the Rhythms of Sleep Technology
NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction ConferenceArticle No.: 62, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546685Sleep takes one-third of our life and is of increasing technological interest. Yet development has been focused on the traditional notion of 8 hours-per-night schedules of ‘good sleep’ – overlooking the varied nature of people’s sleeping and waking ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Understanding People's Perceptions of Approaches to Semi-Automated Dietary Monitoring
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 6, Issue 3Article No.: 129, Pages 1–27https://doi.org/10.1145/3550288The respective benefits and drawbacks of manual food journaling and automated dietary monitoring (ADM) suggest the value of semi-automated journaling systems combining the approaches. However, the current understanding of how people anticipate strategies ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
A Review of Personal Informatics Research for People with Motor Disabilities
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 6, Issue 2Article No.: 66, Pages 1–31https://doi.org/10.1145/3534614Personal informatics (PI) has become an area of significant research over the past decade, maturing into a sub-field that seeks to support people from many backgrounds and life contexts in collecting and finding value in their personal data. PI research ...
- research-articleApril 2022
Understanding People’s Experience for Physical Activity Planning and Exploring the Impact of Historical Records on Plan Creation and Execution
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 232, Pages 1–15https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501997Making and executing physical activity plans can help people improve their physical activity levels. However, little is known about how people make physical activity plans in everyday settings and how people can be assisted in creating more successful ...