Title
Life-swap: how discussions around personal data can motivate desire for change
Abstract
Personal informatics technologies support the collection of and reflection on personal data, but enabling people to learn from and act on this data is still an on-going challenge. Sharing and discussing data is one way people can learn from it, but as yet, little research explores how peer discourses around data can shape understandings and promote action. We ran 3 workshops with 5-week follow-ups, giving 18 people the opportunity to swap their data and discuss it with another person. We found that these workshops helped them to recontextualise and to better understand their data, identify new strategies for changing their behaviour and motivated people to commit to changes in the future. These findings have implications for how personal informatics tools could help people identify opportunities for change and feel motivated to try out new strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s00779-020-01372-9
PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Data sharing,Personal informatics,Behaviour change,Activity tracker,Autographer,RescueTime
Journal
24.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1617-4909
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rowanne Fleck153738.46
Marta E. Cecchinato2768.54
Anna L. Cox312.03
Daniel Harrison4203.92
Paul Marshall5977.01
Jea Hoo Na600.34
Anya Skatova700.34