Personal informatics in practice: Improving quality of life through data

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2799-2802

  Li, Ian ^a   Medynskiy, Yevgeniy ^b   Froehlich, Jon ^c   Larsen, Jakob ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

awareness; behavior; lifelogging; personal informatics; quantified self; reflection; visualizations

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; INFORMATICS; LIFELOGGING; QUANTIFIED SELF;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; REFLECTION; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84862703001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2212724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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