Help me help you: Shared reflection for personal data
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
11-2016
Abstract
Dramatic advances in sensor and computing miniaturization for personal data collection are making Personal Informatics (PI) tools a reality. Yet, advances in data collection have not been matched with similar advances in tools to promote, support, and facilitate reflection on this data. This gap leaves people with large swaths of data, but very little understanding of how to make sense of the data or to derive actionable insights. In this work, we explore a process called shared reflection, where individuals are paired with other data collectors, and asked (through prompts) to reflect on one another’s data. Based on a six-week study where 15 participants collected different kinds of personal data and engaged in a shared reflection process, we show that participants gained transformative insights from others’ reflections on their data. While this was promising, we discuss practical challenges in deploying this idea into real world personal informatics tools. In particular, while shared reflection can be appropriated to effectively bootstrap reflection on one’s data, this needs to be balanced against privacy and control concerns.
Keywords
Personal data analytics, Personal informatics, Reflection, Shared reflection
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Florida, United States, November 13-16
First Page
99
Last Page
109
ISBN
9781450342766
Identifier
10.1145/2957276.2957293
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
City or Country
New York
Citation
GRAHAM, Lisa; TANG, Anthony; and NEUSTAEDTER, Carman.
Help me help you: Shared reflection for personal data. (2016). Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Florida, United States, November 13-16. 99-109.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7913
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/2957276.2957293