Personal informatics is a class of tools that help people collect personally relevant information for the purpose of self-reflection and self-monitoring. These tools help people gain self-knowledge about one's behaviors, habits, and thoughts. It goes by other names such as living by numbers, personal analytics, quantified self, and self-tracking.
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Personal informatics for everyday life
Amon Rapp, Federica Cena
International Journal of Human-computer Studies \/ International Journal of Man-machine Studies, vol. 94, 2016 Aug 30, pp. 1-17
Daniel A. Epstein, Monica Caraway, Chuck Johnston, An Ping, James Fogarty, Sean A. Munson
chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016 Apr 6, pp. 1109-1113
Adolescent and Caregiver use of a Tethered Personal Health Record System.
Matthew K. Hong, Lauren Wilcox, Clayton Feustel, Karen Wasileski-Masker, Thomas A. Olson, Stephen F. Simoneaux
2015 Nov 31
A lived informatics model of personal informatics
Daniel A. Epstein, An Ping, James Fogarty, Sean A. Munson
ubicomp, Ubiquitous Computing, 2015 Aug 6, pp. 731-742
Motivational affordances and personality types in personal informatics
Yamini Karanam, Leslie Filko, Lindsay Kaser, Hanan Alotaibi, Elham Makhsoom, Stephen Voida
ubicomp, Ubiquitous Computing, 2014 Aug 12, pp. 79-82
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