Personal informatics has become a widespread practice, yet even expert users still face challenges in synthesizing and making sense of data. We suggest that these challenges are related to the complexities introduced once personal context is taken seriously. Through ethnographic research in the Quantified Self community, and an iterative software design process for a project called Data Sense, we offer early indications of what those challenges are, and describe how we approached solving them...
Authors
Lama Nachman
Intel Fellow & Director of Anticipatory Computing Lab, Anticipatory Computing Lab
Pete Denman
Lenitra Durham
Devon Strawn
Rita H. Wouhaybi
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