Enhancing Personal Informatics Through Social Sensemaking

Puussaar, Aare; Clear, Adrian K.; Wright, Peter

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025804

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“…However, the advent of social network platforms and wearable technologies has not only encouraged consumers to reflect themselves but also brought new manifestations of sharing self-details with and learning from others (Gabriels, 2016). QS is becoming a social and shared activity, influencing and shaping reflection on collected data through social interactions (Puussaar, Clear, & Wright, 2017). However, most existing research focus on the individual level, ignoring the social effect of quantification (Crawford, Lingel, & Karppi, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Quantified or nonquantified: How quantification affects consumers' motivation in goal pursuit

Zhang

et al. 2019

J of Consumer Behaviour

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Being exposed to more data and devices with tracking functions than ever, quantification is concerned by an increasing number of consumers. The self‐reflection from data may raise consumers' awareness of their own goals to better modify their behaviors. This paper describes consumers' reaction to quantification and confirms its motivational effect in goal pursuit. First, we investigate the motivational effect of quantification and reveal its internal mechanism from the individual–community perspective. Results show that quantification can promote consumers' goal pursuit motivation. A quantified (vs. nonquantified) way to track progress in pursuit of a goal can strengthen consumers' self‐empowerment (individual level) and difference‐insight (community level), thus enhancing the goal pursuit motivation. Second, we explore the moderating effect of some factors on the motivational effect of quantification. Results confirm that self‐empowerment can be enhanced with high data–color consistency, and difference‐insight can be increased with low outcome–process consistency. Third, we identify the validity of various data presentation modes. Using the interactive progress framing (to date with to go) together with the several subunits mode to deliver data in different progress stages is found to be an effective way to promote consumers' goal pursuit motivation.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantified or nonquantified: How quantification affects consumers' motivation in goal pursuit

Zhang

et al. 2019

J of Consumer Behaviour

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“…Recognising that the proposals and the language used to convey them was illegible, our process of translation seemed to have helped children relate to those issues and proposals leveraging their own, everyday experiences of the world in their own terms [15,36]. Our translation and findings, then, echo other work around data translation that emphasises the importance of making data legible to facilitate sense-making and reflection [3,31] and presenting data in context to make it more meaningful to everyday experience [45]. Beyond just presenting data to children, our process involved them in its production "in-place" [60], generating meaningful data bound up with its physical and social context of what was possible on the ground, desirable to local people and feasible for the local authority to implement.…”

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confidence: 69%

Streets for People

Peacock

Anderson

Crivellaro

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we present a socio-technical process designed to engage children in an ongoing urban design project-Streets for People-in Newcastle, UK. We translated urban design proposals developed by residents and the local authority to enable children to contribute ideas to the project. Our process comprised three stages: situated explorations and evidence gathering through digitally supported neighbourhood walks; issue mapping and peer-to-peer discussions using an online engagement platform; and faceto-face dialogue between children, residents, and the local authority through a 'Town Hall' event. We report insights gained through our engagement and show how our activities facilitated issue advocacy and the development of children's capacities, but also surfaced tensions around the agency of children in political processes. We reflect on the challenges of working in this space, and discuss wider implications for technology design and ethical questions that 'scaling up' such work might pose.

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“…Overall, workplaces and employees could organize their digital and well-being agendas around the three frontiers identified by Rapp and colleagues (Rapp et al 2015)-finding new ways for engaging users, going beyond numbers, and exploring understudied categories of users. In line with the sensemaking perspective proposed in the latter part of this article, multidimensional explanations and evaluations of quantification activities and contexts rooted in social embodied experiences are needed Puussaar et al 2017). Otherwise, user engagement with the quantified self will fail to gain further traction, and our insights into its significance and applications will remain limited.…”

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confidence: 91%

Integrating Social Scientific Perspectives on the Quantified Employee Self

Calvard

2019

Social Sciences

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A key technological trend in big data science is that of the quantified self, whereby individuals can self-track their health and well-being using various sources of information. The aim of this article was to integrate multidimensional views on the positive and negative implications of the quantified self for employees and workplaces. Relevant human and social scientific literature on the quantified (employee) self and self-tracking were drawn upon and organized into three main influential perspectives. Specifically, the article identified (1) psychological perspectives on quantified attitudes and behaviors, (2) sociological perspectives on sociomaterial user construction, and (3) critical theoretical perspectives on digital power and control. This article suggests that the three perspectives are complementary and can be usefully integrated into an embodied sensemaking perspective. Embodied sensemaking views the employee as a self-conscious user of big data seeking to make sense of their embeddedness in wider digital and organizational environments. This article concludes with implications for protecting employee agency in tension with employers’ big data strategies for governing and managing the performance of quantified digital employee selves.

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Enhancing Personal Informatics Through Social Sensemaking

Cited by 55 publications

References 30 publications

Quantified or nonquantified: How quantification affects consumers' motivation in goal pursuit

Quantified or nonquantified: How quantification affects consumers' motivation in goal pursuit

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Integrating Social Scientific Perspectives on the Quantified Employee Self

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