From self-monitoring to self- understanding Going Beyond Physiological Sensing for Supporting Wellbeing Dana Pavel¹, Vic Callaghan¹, Anind K. Dey² University of Essex¹, Carnegie Mellon University² May 2011

Main goals Create systems that provide better support for self-reflection and self-understanding Support and involve the end user in all aspects: information collection, interpretation, correlation and visualization MindCare20112

From sensors to stories Current lifestyle management self-monitoring systems do not offer enough insight into why something happened; they mainly focus on recording what happened For that, we need more diverse information, more meaningful correlations and... We need better visualizations capable to capture such diverse information MindCare20113

More complex user context Mental context (interest, focus, etc.) Availability context (people or resource) Physical context (position, direction, distance, speed, proximity) Temporal context (absolute, relative, duration) Activity context Emotional context Social context (communication, identity) MindCare20114

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Visualizations in self-monitoring systems MindCare20116

Daily story Visualizations for information collected and derived stored in the personal database Information collected on demand from remote servers Calendar-based interface MindCare20117

10:20am. Location: at home. It’s quiet. Using MS Word, writing in a document called MyPaper_v1.doc. Quite active, it seems, based on how many words per minute you typed. Weather today is cloudy/sunny. 8

MindCare2011 2:30pm. Location: university. It’s a bit noisy, in a meeting. You are giving a presentation. Getting quite agitated, it seems. Weather now is cloudy/sunny. 9

User-based evaluations Online survey available at: Ongoing user experiments focusing on: 1. What information is perceived as more useful? 2. What correlations are perceived as more useful? 3. How do people want to interact with the system? 4. How do people want to personalize their story? 5. What events are perceived as meaningful by the user? MindCare201110

Online survey (preliminary) 30 people Questions focus on: – Self-reflective behaviours – Building user-friendly interfaces for such systems Customizing interfaces Sharing Interactions MindCare201111

Self-reflective behaviours (1) MindCare2011 Q1: Do you often think back about what happened during the day? (Often/Not very often/Never) Q2: Do you think about what triggered a certain emotion or behaviour? (Yes/No) Q3: Do you usually propose any change based on self reflection? (Yes/No/Examples) 12

Self-reflective behaviours (2) MindCare201113

Means for self-reflection MindCare201114

System-related questions Q6: Would you find useful having a system as presented in the scenario? (Yes/No/Examples of useful information) Q7: If you were to be using such a system would you like to be able to see a story generated based on your activity data? (Yes/No/Explain) MindCare

Personality vs. system usage MindCare201116

Ongoing and future work User-based experiments – Look into meaningful events through event button Online survey still active at Automatic story creation mechanisms System usage in certain application areas, such as support for mental health care MindCare201117

Thank you! Contact info: Online survey: Work is performed under PAL project: MindCare201118