Ayobi, A;
Sonne, T;
Marshall, P;
Cox, AL;
(2018)
Flexible and Mindful Self-Tracking: Design Implications from Paper Bullet Journals.
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Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18).
ACM: Montreal, Canada.
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Abstract
Digital self-tracking technologies offer many potential benefits over self-tracking with paper notebooks. However, they are often too rigid to support people’s practical and emotional needs in everyday settings. To inform the design of more flexible self-tracking tools, we examine bullet journaling: an analogue and customisable approach for logging and reflecting on everyday life. Analysing a corpus of paper bullet journal photos and related conversations on Instagram, we found that individuals extended and adapted bullet journaling systems to their changing practical and emotional needs through: (1) creating and combining personally meaningful visualisations of different types of trackers, such as habit, mood, and symptom trackers; (2) engaging in mindful reflective thinking through design practices and self-reflective strategies; and (3) posting photos of paper journals online to become part of a selftracking culture of sharing and learning. We outline two interrelated design directions for flexible and mindful selftracking: digitally extending analogue self-tracking and supporting digital self-tracking as a mindful design practice.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Flexible and Mindful Self-Tracking: Design Implications from Paper Bullet Journals |
| Event: | Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18) |
| Location: | Montréal, Canada |
| Dates: | 21 April 2018 - 26 April 2018 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3173574.3173602 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173602 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Bullet journaling; personal informatics; self-tracking; selfmonitoring; self-care technologies; habit tracking; mood tracking; symptom tracking; Instagram. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044078 |
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