Designing Data Visualisations for Self-Compassion in Personal Informatics

Meagan B. Loerakker; Jasmin Niess; Marit Bentvelzen; Paweł W. WoÅ°niak

doi:10.1145/3631448

Designing Data Visualisations for Self-Compassion in Personal Informatics

Meagan B. Loerakker, Jasmin Niess, Marit Bentvelzen, Paweł W. WoÅ°niak

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Abstract

Wearable personal trackers offer exciting opportunities to contribute to one's well-being, but they also can foster negative experiences. It remains a challenge to understand how we can design personal informatics experiences that help users frame their data in a positive manner and foster self-compassion. To explore this, we conducted a study where we compared different visualisations for user-generated screen time data. We examined positive, neutral and negative framings of the data and whether or not a point of reference was provided in a visualisation. The results show that framing techniques have a significant effect on reflection, rumination and self-compassion. We contribute insights into what design features of data representations can support positive experiences in personal informatics.

Original language	English
Article number	169
Journal	Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3631448
Publication status	Published - 12 Jan 2024

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This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council, award number 2022-03196.

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Swedish Research Council	2022-03196

Keywords

data visualisation
Personal informatics
reflection
rumination
self-compassion

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