Transitions in Personal Informatics: Investigating Self-Tracking During Moments of Change

Catrin Feron; Tina Ekhtiar; Ruben Gouveia

doi:10.1145/3547522.3547686

Transitions in Personal Informatics: Investigating Self-Tracking During Moments of Change

Catrin Feron, Tina Ekhtiar, Ruben Gouveia

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Abstract

We present findings from a study that investigates how people engage in self-tracking as they experience a major life transition. Using pregnancy as a case study, we inquired 41 pregnant women into how their pregnancies shaped their use and engagement with self-tracking tools as they transitioned into their pregnancies. Our study highlights some of the challenges that transitions place on self-tracking, including misalignments between one's past data and current realities, and ways of realising goals. We discuss these challenges and suggest ways in which self-tracking could better account for realities which consider changing lives, bodies and identities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NordiCHI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394482
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547686
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2022
Event	12th Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, NordiCHI 2022 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 8 Oct 2022 → 12 Oct 2022 Conference number: 12

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Conference	12th Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, NordiCHI 2022
Abbreviated title	NordiCHI 2022
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	8/10/22 → 12/10/22

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Life transitions
Personal informatics
Pregnancy
2023 OA procedure

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Feron, C, Ekhtiar, T & Gouveia, R 2022, Transitions in Personal Informatics: Investigating Self-Tracking During Moments of Change. in NordiCHI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference., 43, Association for Computing Machinery, 12th Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, NordiCHI 2022, Aarhus, Denmark, 8/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547686

Transitions in Personal Informatics: Investigating Self-Tracking During Moments of Change. / Feron, Catrin; Ekhtiar, Tina; Gouveia, Ruben.
NordiCHI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. 43.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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