Author: Ian Li

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Remote Interviews: Reflecting on Self-Tracking Data

July 8, 2010

Last week, I wrote a post recruiting self-quantifiers who live in Pittsburgh for face-to-face interviews at Carnegie Mellon University, but not many responded. Thankfully, a QS reader informed me of Skype’s ‘Share Screen’ feature. Now, I am writing again to recruit participants, but this time the interviews will be remote using Skype’s ‘Share Screen’ feature….

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Reflecting on Self-Tracking Data: Study at Carnegie Mellon University

June 28, 2010

Hello, everyone! Last summer, we conducted a study about people’s experiences using personal informatics tools to collect and reflect on data about themselves. This summer, we are running a more focused study to explore how people reflect on their personal informatics data. The study consists of two one-hour interviews (a few weeks apart) at Carnegie…

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Results of the Personal Informatics Survey

February 9, 2010

In the summer of 2009, I posted a survey of personal informatics tools on The Quantified Self, Flowing Data, and forums at personal informatics sites like Slife and MoodJam. Many people participated describing their experiences using existing tools to track and reflect on personal information. The survey helped us develop a model to describe personal…