Intelligent Computing in Personal Informatics: Key Design Considerations

An expanding range of apps supported by wearable and mo-bile devices are being used by people engaged in personal in-formatics in order to track and explore data about themselves and their everyday activities. While the aspect of data col-lection is easier than ever before through these technologies, more advanced forms of support from personal informatics systems are not presently available. This lack of next gener-ation personal informatics systems presents research with an important role to fill, and this paper presents a two-step con-tribution to this effect. The first step is to present a new model of human cooperation with intelligent computing, which col-lates key issues from the literature. The second step is to apply this model to personal informatics, identifying twelve key considerations for integrating intelligent computing in the design of future personal informatics systems. These design considerations are also applied to an example system, which illustrates their use in eliciting new design directions. Author Keywords Personal informatics; quantified self; cooperative computing; augmented computing; ambient computing; cooperative action orchestratio