Understanding self-reflection: how people reflect on personal data through visual data exploration

With the rapid development of consumer technology, people have become able to collect various personal data. Vertical data from multiple self-tracking tools provides a great opportunity to promote deep self-reflection by asking people to ask questions and investigate data in the proper way. However, in addition to providing simple feedback, most self - tracking tools lack support for self - reflection. Our main goal is to support self-trackers to visualize the data to reflect rich insight to reflect the data. As the first step towards this goal, we built a Web-based application called Visualized Self and conducted a Laboratory Thinking Survey (N = 11) to see how people reflect their personal data I did it. ...read more

Self-tracking, that is, collection of personal data to achieve quantitative self-recognition, is a repeated theme that is repeated in my work and private life. I spent a lot of time thinking about understanding myself through patterns, using data to achieve higher quality of life, and how to motivate users to self-track. GVio designs several self-tracking tools from health-related applications that monitor pregnant women's sleep and emotional patterns to professional development applications that encourage employees to track training time and learning efforts We supported. Of course, these self-tracking products are just a means for the purpose. For pregnant apps, "final goal" is very noble. It is to stop postpartum depression by detecting and alleviating common problems during pregnancy. For professional development applications, the "goal" is to encourage employees to realize their potential using their resources and become more valuable employees.

With the rapid development of consumer technology, people have become able to collect various personal data. Vertical data from multiple self-tracking tools provides a great opportunity to promote deep self-reflection by asking people to ask questions and investigate data in the proper way. However, in addition to providing simple feedback, most self - tracking tools lack support for self - reflection. Our main goal is to support self-trackers to visualize the data to reflect rich insight to reflect the data. As the first step towards this goal, we built a Web-based application called Visualized Self and conducted a Laboratory Thinking Survey (N = 11) to see how people reflect their personal data I did it. ...read more