Personal Informatics in the Wild: Hacking Habits for Health & Happiness — CHI 2013 Workshop

Personal Informatics in the Wild: Hacking Habits for Health & Happiness — CHI 2013 Workshop

Accepted Papers | Call for Participation

Take a stance! Designing for healthy consumption
Christian A. Detweiler, Alina Huldtgren, Nick Guldemond

Personal informatics apps that promote healthy consumption share similar aims, but vary in the means they adopt to meet them. The adopted means reflect different stances. Stances are the positions that designers implicitly take on a range of issues, such as personal information, freedom of choice and responsibility. Judgments on values such as privacy, autonomy and accountability underlie these stances. We argue for the use of stances as a tool to design personal informatics apps for healthy consumption. Making stances explicit and exploring alternate stances can help designers and stakeholders analyze means and their consequences, and identify and explore alternative approaches. This can better align app’s approaches with users' values, improving ethical acceptability, adoption and long-term use. We examine a number of apps, identify the implicit stances they take, and propose next steps toward using stances as a design tool.

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Organized by

Ian Li
Jon Froehlich
Jakob Eg Larsen
Catherine Grevet
Ernesto Ramirez

Dates

  • Papers Due  January 11, 2013
    January 18, 2013
  • Notification  February 8, 2013
  • Workshop  April 27–28, 2013

CHI 2013

CHI 2013
April 27–May 2, 2013
Paris, France

Created by Ian Li. HCII, Carnegie Mellon University.