Beyond Personal Informatics

Abstract

A data-driven life is increasingly possible, yet research and previous workshops have tended to focus on the utility of personal informatics -especially for behaviour change -rather than 'lived informatics' as experienced. This workshop proposes to engage participants in conversation, scenario building and conceptual design that deeply and critically examines the multiple roles personal informatics can play in people's everyday lives and map out novel design opportunities and challenges.

Quantified Data & Social Relationships

“…However, the 'Beyond Personal Informatics' [3] workshop highlighted the appetite for more critical and socially oriented approaches to these technologies.…”

“…Building on numerous prior CHI & UbiComp workshops in this field (see personalinformatics.org and specifically our CHI 2015 workshop [3]) we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners for a workshop that focuses explicitly on the implications of data-driven lives for social relationships (online or offline).…”

Exploring Qualitative Displays and Interfaces

“…And yet, quantification has become the default mode of interaction with technology, of display of information, and of interfaces which aim to support decision-making and behaviour change in everyday life [27]. We need not elaborate here the phenomena of the quantified self [36,42] and personal informatics more widely [24,12], except to note the prevalence of numerical approaches (Figure 1) and the relative unusualness of non-numerical, pattern-based forms ( Figure 2). But what might we be missing through this focus on quantification?…”