Personal Informatics in the Wild: Hacking Habits for Health & Happiness — CHI 2013 Workshop
Accepted Papers | Call for Participation
In favour of a multiplied self. Can empathy lead to personal behaviour change?
Mara Balestrini
Within the field of Personal Informatics much research pursues the design of applications for self-tracking to motivate behaviour change. Such tools usually follow an 'egocentric' approach where the user is expected to reflect on and change her behaviour by visualizing her own collected data. I suggest that a system where the data of a user is mapped into the wellbeing of an external entity or a community, with which the user establishes an affective bond, could lead to an alternative approach towards self-awareness, based on empathy and vicarious emotions such as altruism and compassion.
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Organized by
Ian Li
Jon Froehlich
Jakob Eg Larsen
Catherine Grevet
Ernesto Ramirez
Dates
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Papers Due
January 11, 2013
January 18, 2013 - Notification February 8, 2013
- Workshop April 27–28, 2013
CHI 2013
April 27–May 2, 2013
Paris, France
