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Assisted Self Reflection: Combining Lifetracking, Sensemaking & Personal Information Management
The web, personal computers and instant ubiquitous digital communications have brought unprecedented constant demands on our attention. As a result, people do not spend as much time thinking, reflecting upon situations, decisions and activities as they used to. As a consequence, people feel less organized, and often lack the situational clarity to make informed decisions. We present an ongoing project, Poyozo, designed to make self-reflection an integral part of daily personal information management activity, and to provide facilities for fostering greater self-understanding through exploration of captured personal activity logs. We describe an application that visualizes such personal activity logs using many available “life-tracking” tools, and uses visual and textual PIM metaphors to convey this information in a familiar way that is personally relevant and meaningful.
One day detail view of the Poyozo calendar in text mode(a) using PLAN to show a list of the most significant events occurring on that day, and graphs mode(b) allowing users to correlate events and activity statistics.
Poyozo uses automatically captured activity logs to promote self-understanding by contextualizing self-refection within common PIM practice, and by using visual and textual PIM metaphors to convey this information in a familiar way that is personally relevant and meaningful. Furthermore, we demonstrate that many of the various ``life-tracking'' tools available today provide a simple means of heterogeneous activity tracking without need for additional sensing or infrastructure. The ultimate goal of the system is to determine whether appropriately summarizing and presenting a user's captured activity data, can have a positive effect on his or her ability to make informed decisions, self-image, perceived quality of life.
for a more detailed explanation see our CHI2010 workshop submission here
created in collaboration with Max Van Kleek, David Karger and mc schrafel
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I am investigating interfaces, interaction techniques, and visualization methods that help people understand their lives through exploring their own personal information
Check out my current projects - atomate, eyebrowse and poyozo
email: brennanmoore@gmail.com
twitter: @zamiang
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