Challenges of Quantified-Self: Encouraging Self-Reported Data Logging During Recurrent Smartphone Usage

We argue that improved data entry can motivate Quantified-Self (QS) users to better engage with QS applications. To improve data entry, we investigate the notion of transforming active smartphone usage into data logging contributions through alert dialogs. We evaluate this assertion in a 4-week long deployment with 48 participants. We collect 17,906 data entries, where 68.3% of the entries are reported using the alert dialogs. We demonstrate that QS applications can benefit from alert dialogs: to increase data precision, frequency, and reduce the probability of forgetfulness in data logging. We investigate the impact of usage session type (e.g., sessions with different goals or durations) and the assigned reminder delay on frequency of data contributions. We conclude with insights gathered from our investigation, and the implications they have on future designs.

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Aku Visuri

Niels van Berkel

Chu Luo

Jorge Goncalves

Denzil Ferreira

Vassilis Kostakos

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Publication date: July 2017

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[0001]Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu

[0002]The University of Melbourne

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.81

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Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

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[1] A. AhtinenE. MattilaA. VaatanenL. HynninenJ. SalminenE. KoskinenK. LaineYear User experiences of mobile wellness applications in health promotion: User study of Wellness Diary, Mobile Coach and SelfRelax International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare IEEE 1 8 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6007

[2] Akhawe DevdattaPorter Felt Adrienne Year. Alice in warningland: A large-scale field study of browser security warning effectiveness Presented as part of the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 13) Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium 257 272

[3] Bentley FrankTollmar Konrad Year. The Power of Mobile Notifications to Increase Wellbeing Logging Behavior Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM 1095 1098 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466140

[4] Brown BarryMcGregor MoiraMcMillan Donald Year. 100 Days of iPhone Use: Understanding the Details of Mobile Device Use Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-computer Interaction with Mobile Devices & Services ACM 223 232 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2628363.2628377

[5] Ferreira DenzilGoncalves JorgeKostakos VassilisBarkhuus LouiseK Dey Anind Year. Contextual Experience Sampling of Mobile Application Micro-Usage International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services ACM 91 100 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2628363.2628367

[6] Fritz ThomasM Huang ElaineC Murphy GailZimmermann Thomas Year. Persuasive Technology in the Real World: A Study of Longterm Use of Activity Sensing Devices for Fitness Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM 487 496 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557383

[7] Gouveia RúbenKarapanos EvangelosHassenzahl Marc Year. How Do We Engage with Activity Trackers?: A Longitudinal Study of Habito Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing ACM 1305 1316 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2804290

[8] Hoy DamianMarch LynBrooks PeterBlyth FionaWoolf AnthonyBain ChristopherWilliams GailSmith EmmaVos TheoBarendregt JanMurray ChrisBurstein RoyBuchbinder Rachelle 2014 The global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases annrheumdis-2013 204 428 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204428

[9] Karapanos Evangelos 2015 Sustaining User Engagement with Behavior-change Tools interactions 22 4 48 52 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2775388

[10] Larson ReedCsikszentmihalyi Mihaly 2014 The Experience Sampling Method Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology Springer Netherlands 21 34

[11] Ledger DanMcCaffrey Daniel 2014 Inside Wearables How the Science of Human Behavior Change Offers the Secret to Long-Term Engagement Endeavour Partners 17

[12] Lee Yu-KangChang Chun-TuanLin YouCheng Zhao-Hong 2014 The dark side of smartphone usage: Psychological traits, compulsive behavior and technostress Computers in Human Behavior 31 373 383 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/i.chb.2013.10.047

[13] Leiva LuisBöhmer MatthiasGehring SvenKrüger Antonio Year. Back to the app: the costs of mobile application interruptions Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Humancomputer interaction with mobile devices and services - MobileHCI '12 New York, New York, USA 291 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371617

[14] Matic AleksandarPielot MartinOliver Nuria Year. Boredom-computer Interaction: Boredom Proneness and the Use of Smartphone Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing ACM 837 841 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807530

[15] Patrick KevinRaab FredA Adams MarcDillon LindsayZabinski MarianL Rock CherylG Griswold WilliamJ Norman Gregory 2009 A text message-based intervention for weight loss: randomized controlled trial J Med Internet Res 11 1 e1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/imir.1100

[16] Sahami Shirazi AlirezaHenze NielsDingler TilmanPielot MartinWeber DominikSchmidt Albrecht Year. Large-scale Assessment of Mobile Notifications Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM 3055 3064 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557189

[17] Swan Melanie 2013 The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery Big Data 1 2 85 99 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2012.0002

[18] C Tsai ChristopherLee GunnyRaab FredJ Norman GregorySohn TimothyG Griswold WilliamPatrick Kevin 2007 Usability and Feasibility of PmEB: A Mobile Phone Application for Monitoring Real Time Caloric Balance Mob. Netw. Appl 12 2-3 173 184 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-007-0014-4

[19] van Berkel NielsLuo ChuAnagnostopoulos TheodorosFerreira DenzilGoncalves JorgeHosio SimoKostakos Vassilis Year. A Systematic Assessment of Smartphone Usage Gaps Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM 4711 4721 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858348

[20] N. van BerkelC. LuoD. FerreiraJ. GoncalvesV. Kostakos 2015 The Curse of Quantified-Self: An Endless Quest for Answers International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Adjunct) 973 978 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800946

[21] Visuri AkuSarsenbayeva Zhannavan Berkel NielsGoncalves JorgeRawassizadeh RezaKostakos VassilisFerreira Denzil 2017 Quantifying Smartwatch Use Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM

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