Situated Self-Tracking: Ideating, Designing, and Deploying Dedicated User-driven Personal Informatics Systems

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dc.contributor.advisorWillett, Wesley J.
dc.contributor.authorWannamaker, Kendra
dc.contributor.committeememberTang, Tony
dc.contributor.committeememberSuzuki, Ryo
dc.contributor.committeememberWillett, Wesley J.
dc.date2021-06
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T15:40:09Z
dc.date.available2021-01-27T15:40:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-20
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we examine the intersection between personal informatics and situated visualization. Personal Informatics systems aim to help people collect and utilize their own data. Situated visualizations aim to decentralize data consumption and support people in making data-driven decisions in-situ. We present I/O Bits, a prototype personal informatics system that explores the potential for situated self-tracking. With simple tactile inputs and small e-paper visualizations, I/O Bits are dedicated physical devices that allow individuals to track and visualize different kinds of personal activities in-situ. This is in contrast to most self-tracking systems, which automate data collection, centralize information displays, or integrate into multi-purpose devices like smartwatches or mobile phones. Our contributions stem from a set of situated ideation workshops, an e-paper visualization workshop, the development of I/O Bits, and a prototype deployment where participants constructed their own I/O Bits and used them to track a range of personal data. We make three contributions with this work. First, we report on methodologies from seven design workshops that used ideation and sketching activities to prototype new situated visualizations. Based on our diverse set of workshops, we identify challenges and opportunities for sketching and ideating situated visualizations and highlight promising methods for both designers and researchers. Second, we use our design workshop results to design our novel situated self-tracking system, I/O Bits. We discuss the tensions experienced during our iterative design and development process and explore the design space of small situated visualizations on e-paper displays. Finally, we examine our findings from the situated ideation workshops, e-paper visualization workshop, development process, and prototype deployment. Using sketches, photos, hardware, audio recordings, and transcripts, we distill a set of insights and opportunities for future research on situated self-tracking.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWannamaker, K. (2021). Situated Self-Tracking: Ideating, Designing, and Deploying Dedicated User-driven Personal Informatics Systems (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38590
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113022
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyScienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectSituated Visualizationen_US
dc.subjectInformation Visualizationen_US
dc.subjectDesign Workshopsen_US
dc.subjectSmall Displaysen_US
dc.subjectIdeationen_US
dc.subjectSketchingen_US
dc.subjectPersonal Data/Trackingen_US
dc.subjectAmbient Devices/ Internet of Thingsen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Sciencesen_US
dc.titleSituated Self-Tracking: Ideating, Designing, and Deploying Dedicated User-driven Personal Informatics Systemsen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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