Know thyself: Monitoring and reflecting on facets of one's life

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4489-4492

  Li, Ian ^a   Forlizzi, Jodi ^a   Dey, Anind ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Behavior; Life logging; Personal informatics; Reflection; Study methods; Visualizations

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; INFORMATICS; LIFELOGGING; PERSONAL INFORMATICS; STUDY METHODS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; REFLECTION; TECHNOLOGY; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77953100496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1754181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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