The research community on the study and design of systems for personal informatics has
grown over the past decade. To take stock of what the topics the field has studied and …

Current models of how people use personal informatics systems are largely based in
behavior change goals. They do not adequately characterize the integration of self-tracking …

Recent research examines how and why people abandon self tracking tools. We extend this
work with new insights drawn from people reflecting on their experiences after they stop …

The spreading of devices and applications allowing people to collect personal information
opens new opportunities for Personal Informatics. Although many of these tools are already …

Although Personal Informatics stresses the importance of “self”-awareness and “self”-
knowledge in collecting personal data, a description of the “self,” to which all these …

We present an alternative approach to the design of personal informatics systems: instead of
motivating people to examine their own behaviors, this approach promotes awareness of …

People stop using personal tracking tools over time, referred to as the lapsing stage of their
tool use. We explore how designs can support people when they lapse in tracking …

Project HealthDesign, a multi-year, multi-site project sponsored by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation with additional support from the California HealthCare Foundation, is …

To participate in meaningful privacy practice in the context of technical systems, people
require opportunities to understand the extent of the systems' alignment with relevant …

Objective: Understand barriers to the use of personal health data (PHD) in research from the
perspective of three stakeholder groups: early adopter individuals who track data about their …