(Big) Data and sensemaking
This week’s subject is personal informatics, quantified self, lived informatics, living by numbers – all the things that really intrigue me. Our …
Are you healthy enough? Assumptions of the Healthism cult
I read Deborah Lupton’s paper Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies [1]. This week’s paper …
‘One of a CHInd’; Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics – Rooksby et al (2014)
This study explores the use of activity trackers as ‘lived informatics’, positing itself in opposition to other papers on the subject. The …
A Quantified Past
How people interact with the data they had collected with personal informatics tools? How people make their own meaning through the data? …
Personal Tracking: Living by numbers or with numbers?
“Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics” is a CHI’14-paper by John Rooksby, Mattias Rost, Alistair Morrison and Matthew Chalmers from the University of …
Personal informatics vs. social imperatives
This paper [1] outlines a model of engaging with personal informatics systems (PIS) as a five-stage psychological process. Personal informatics systems are defined …
The future of looking back
For this week I would like to review a paper by Elsden et. al titled “A Quantified Past: Towards Design for Remembering …
Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies – Deborah Lupton
The age of mHealth and the quantified-self is upon us. Web connected mobile devices are widely adopted, and with them a whole …
Am I a cyborg because I wear health monitoring technology?
This week’s blog post reviews the paper “Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies” by Deborah …
A Stage-Based Model of Personal Informatics Systems
In this paper Li et al. look to explore the problems of personal informatics systems as encountered by users in an attempt …
Walking the line between Failure, Persuasion and Manipulation
Fit4Life is a system that conforms with the trend to integrate personalized weight loss interventions with technology. These technologies act to support …
Dispelling Design as the ‘Black Art’ of CHI
This paper focuses on the use of creative design within Human Computer Interaction. The authors Wolf et al. argue that creative design …
Experience Design Theatre: Just an act?
The paper I chose this week was “Experience Design Theatre: Exploring the Role of Live Theatre in Scaffolding Design Dialogues”. In this …
Dispelling the notion of design as a black art in interaction design research
This week, for the Research Design series of papers, I chose Research Through Design as a Method for Interaction Design Research in HCI …
Making Spaces: How Design Workbooks Work
The paper discusses design workbooks that present a collection of design proposals covering both method and design methodology during the early stages …
What should we expect from RtD ?
I chose this paper first because the title got my attention and made me start to think of an answer to that …