Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2020

Abstract

We present Activity River, a personal visualization tool which enables individuals to plan, log, and reflect on their self-defined activities. We are interested in supporting this type of reflective practice as prior work has shown that reflection can help people plan and manage their time effectively. Hence, we designed Activity River based on five design goals (visualize historical and contextual data, facilitate comparison of goals and achievements, engage viewers with delightful visuals, support authorship, and enable flexible planning and logging) which we distilled from the Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction literature. To explore our approach's strengths and limitations, we conducted a qualitative study of Activity River using a role-playing method. Through this qualitative exploration, we illustrate how our participants envisioned using our visualization to perform dynamic and continuous reflection on their activities. We observed that they were able to assess their progress towards their plans and adapt to unforeseen circumstances using our tool.

Keywords

Life-logging, Personal Visualization, Reflection tools

Discipline

Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

AVI '20: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Salerno, Italy, 2020 September 28-October 2

Volume

30

First Page

1

Last Page

9

ISBN

9781450375351

Identifier

10.1145/3399715.3399921

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

Salerno, Italy

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399921

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