Life-swap: how discussions around personal data can motivate desire for change

Fleck, Rowanne, Cecchinato, Marta, Cox, Anna L., Harrison, Daniel, Marshall, Paul, Na, Jea Hoo and Skatova, Anya (2020) Life-swap: how discussions around personal data can motivate desire for change. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 24 (5). pp. 669-681. ISSN 1617-4909

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Abstract

Personal informatics technologies support the collection of and reflection on personal data, but enabling people to learn from and act on this data is still an on-going challenge. Sharing and discussing data is one way people can learn from it, but as yet, little research explores how peer discourses around data can shape understandings and promote action. We ran 3 workshops with 5-week follow-ups, giving 18 people the opportunity to swap their data and discuss it with another person. We found that these workshops helped them to recontextualise and to better understand their data, identify new strategies for changing their behaviour and motivated people to commit to changes in the future. These findings have implications for how personal informatics tools could help people identify opportunities for change and feel motivated to try out new strategies.

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