Understanding my data, myself

Li, Ian; Dey, Anind K.; Forlizzi, Jodi

doi:10.1145/2030112.2030166

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“…While little research has focused on user needs in rehabilitative games, the field of personalized informatics and quantified-self has identified user needs in terms of the following questions that people who collect data about themselves seek to answer [26] and might equally apply to games like WAM that generate data in each session: [2,7,42]. In the shorter ten day pilot trial [22] with four participants (two neglect and two attention deficit patients) this concern had not emerged.…”

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Self-rehabilitation of acquired brain injury patients including neglect and attention deficit disorder with a tablet game in a clinical setting

Knoche¹,

Hald²,

Richter³

et al. 2017

EAI Endorsed Trans Perv Health Tech

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We designed and evaluated a whack-a-mole (WAM) style game (see Figure 1) in a clinical randomized controlled trial (RCT) with reminder-assisted but self-initiated use over the period of a month with 43 participants from a post-lesion pool. While game play did not moderate rehabilitative progress indices of standard neuropsychological control tests, it did significantly improve in-game performance when compared to the control group. Its performance indicators and interaction data were highly accurate in predicting neglect and which hand the patients used for input. Patients found playing beneficial to their rehabilitation and attributed gains in the attention training properties of the game. The game showed potential for bedside assessment, insight support, and motivation by providing knowledge about rehabilitative progress.

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Self-rehabilitation of acquired brain injury patients including neglect and attention deficit disorder with a tablet game in a clinical setting

Knoche¹,

Hald²,

Richter³

et al. 2017

EAI Endorsed Trans Perv Health Tech

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“…Self-tracking applications can collect all kinds of everyday activities, thoughts, and statuses into discrete data that can be stored, analyzed, and used to guide to positive outcomes. They are quantifiable, analytical data about health, habits, and routines, from the temperature in a particular sleep environment to the exact amount of time people have been still, sitting in a chair (e.g., Li, Dey, & Forlizzi, 2011;Thomaz, 2013). An increasing number of people are carrying smartphones and devices with them all day, every day, and these devices can be used to collect data.…”

Section: Biomonitoring and Personal Health Informaticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantified Bodies in the Checking Loop: Analyzing the Choreographies of Biomonitoring and Generating Big Data

Parviainen¹

2016

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“…The design of tracking and motivational applications are often based on behavioral psychology [Consolvo et al, 2009;Froehlich et al, 2010], with the hypothesis that immediate contextual feedback can promote behavioral change [Li et al, 2011]. Tracking of activity and providing of contextual feedback has become much easier recently, due to progress in sensing technology and wearable devices.…”

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Exploring the Potential of Physical Visualizations

Stusak¹

2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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The goal of an external representation of abstract data is to provide insights and convey information about the structure of the underlying data, therefore helping people execute tasks and solve problems more effectively. Apart from the popular and well-studied digital visualization of abstract data there are other scarcely studied perceptual channels to represent data such as taste, sound or haptic. My thesis focuses on the latter and explores in which ways human knowledge and ability to sense and interact with the physical non-digital world can be used to enhance the way in which people analyze and explore abstract data. Emerging technological progress in digital fabrication allow an easy, fast and inexpensive production of physical objects. Machines such as laser cutters and 3D printers enable an accurate fabrication of physical visualizations with different form factors as well as materials. This creates, for the first time, the opportunity to study the potential of physical visualizations in a broad range.The thesis starts with the description of six prototypes of physical visualizations from static examples to digitally augmented variations to interactive artifacts. Based on these explorations, three promising areas of potential for physical visualizations were identified and investigated in more detail: perception & memorability, communication & collaboration, and motivation & self-reflection.The results of two studies in the area of information recall showed that participants who used a physical bar chart retained more information compared to the digital counterpart. Particularly facts about maximum and minimum values were be remembered more efficiently, when they were perceived from a physical visualization.Two explorative studies dealt with the potential of physical visualizations regarding communication and collaboration. The observations revealed the importance on the design and aesthetic of physical visualizations and indicated a great potential for their utilization by audiences with less interest in technology. The results also exposed the current limitations of physical visualizations, especially in contrast to their well-researched digital counterparts.In the area of motivation we present the design and evaluation of the Activity Sculptures project. We conducted a field study, in which we investigated physical visualizations of personal running activity. It was discovered that these sculptures generated curiosity and experimentation regarding the personal running behavior as well as evoked social dynamics such as discussions and competition.Based on the findings of the aforementioned studies this thesis concludes with two theoretical contributions on the design and potential of physical visualizations. On the one hand, it proposes a conceptual framework for material representations of personal data by describing a production and consumption lens. The goal is to encourage artists and designers working in the field of personal informatics to harness the interactive capabilities af...

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Understanding my data, myself

Cited by 387 publications

References 27 publications

Self-rehabilitation of acquired brain injury patients including neglect and attention deficit disorder with a tablet game in a clinical setting

Self-rehabilitation of acquired brain injury patients including neglect and attention deficit disorder with a tablet game in a clinical setting

Quantified Bodies in the Checking Loop: Analyzing the Choreographies of Biomonitoring and Generating Big Data

Exploring the Potential of Physical Visualizations

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