TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing personal informatics through social sensemaking
AU - Puussaar, Aare
AU - Clear, Adrian K.
AU - Wright, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/5/2
Y1 - 2017/5/2
N2 - Personal informatics practices are increasingly common, with a range of consumer technologies available to support, largely individual, interactions with data (e.g., performance measurement and activity/health monitoring). In this paper, we explore the concept of social sensemaking. In contrast to high-level statistics, we posit that social networking and reciprocal sharing of fine-grained self-tracker data can provide valuable context for individuals in making sense of their data. We present the design of an online platform called Citizense Makers (CM), which facilitates group sharing, annotating and discussion of self-tracker data. In a field trial of CM, we explore design issues around willingness to share data reciprocally; the importance of familiarity between individuals; and understandings of common activities in contextualising one's own data.
AB - Personal informatics practices are increasingly common, with a range of consumer technologies available to support, largely individual, interactions with data (e.g., performance measurement and activity/health monitoring). In this paper, we explore the concept of social sensemaking. In contrast to high-level statistics, we posit that social networking and reciprocal sharing of fine-grained self-tracker data can provide valuable context for individuals in making sense of their data. We present the design of an online platform called Citizense Makers (CM), which facilitates group sharing, annotating and discussion of self-tracker data. In a field trial of CM, we explore design issues around willingness to share data reciprocally; the importance of familiarity between individuals; and understandings of common activities in contextualising one's own data.
KW - Data sharing
KW - Personal informatics
KW - Social sensemaking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044859638&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025804
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025804
M3 - Conference Publication
AN - SCOPUS:85044859638
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 6936
EP - 6942
BT - CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
ER -