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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Personal informatics"”.
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The observing self as a catalyst for behaviour change and wellbeing: Effective personal informatics system design to promote behaviour change in the changing health paradigm
… a user-centred enquiry into how wellness-related personal informatics (PI) systems can be more effectively designed to better promote lasting behaviour change and sustained wellbeing in the context of the changing health paradigm. Until recently, the Western biomedical model with its disease focus …
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Emotion-centered Data Physicalization in Social Media Contexts: Exploring Tangible Strategies for Emotional Awareness
This thesis examines how data physicalization and personal informatics, integrated through a user-centered design process, can support emotional reflection in young male university students during social media use. Using a three-phase methodology, exploratory interviews, co-design and prototyping, …
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Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news
… declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized news feeds and social media, there is concern that our forms of information consumption do not support encountering sufficient information about other cultures and places to make us effective citizens of the world. This thesis reviews …
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Learning Identity Framework: Learning Identity through Self-Awareness
… and describe the components of the learning informatics framework. Conceptually the Learning Identity Framework will be a technology-supported platform (upon which other technologies and applications can be utilized) that will put in the hands of lifelong learners a process to record daily …
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Utilization of personal health informatics through intermediary users
Personal informatics are important tools in health self-management as they support individuals to quantify and self-reflect on their lifestyle. Human-computer interaction researchers have devoted resources on studying how to design such tools. Various motivational strategies have been explored for …
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Design guidelines for behavioral feedback visualizations to support health behavior change
… mobile applications) enable users to monitor personal health behaviors (e.g., daily steps, medication taking) and visualize the behavioral data as feedback via interactive or ambient displays to support health behavior change. The visualization tools could promote a robust understanding and …