Analyzing the Design Space of Personal Informatics : A State-of-practice Based Classification of Existing Tools

摘要

We are presently seeing a rapid increase of tools for tracking and analyzing activities, from lifelogging in general to specific activities such as exercise tracking. Guided by the perspectives of collection, procedural, and analysis support, this paper presents the results from a review of 71 existing tools, striving to capture the design choices within personal informatics that such tools are using. The classification system this creates is a contribution in three ways: as a standalone state-of-practice representation, for assessing individual tools and potential future design directions for them, and as a guide for new development of personal informatics tools