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BeyondQS 2014 : Beyond Quantified Self: Data for Wellbeing Workshop in conjunction CHI 2014, April 26th or 27th, Toronto, Canada | |||||||||||||
Link: http://BeyondQS.offis.de/ | |||||||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||||||
*** Background ***
Sustaining our health and wellbeing requires lifelong efforts for prevention and healthy living. Continuously observing ourselves is one of the fundamental measures to be taken. While many devices support monitoring and quantifying our health behavior and health state, they all are facing the same trade-off: the higher the data quality is the higher are the efforts of data acquisition. However, for lifelong use, minimizing efforts for the user is crucial. Nowadays, few devices find a good balance between cost and value. In this interdisciplinary workshop we discuss how this trade-off can be approached by addressing three topics: understanding the user’s information needs, exploring options for data acquisition, and discussing potential designs for life-long use. *** Topics *** We solicit position papers contributing to the three main topics of the workshop: (1) User - What are the information needs of the end user? This includes direct needs about what the user wants to know right now. It also includes indirect needs, i.e. what the user wants other persons like his doctor to know about his health now or a prediction of the future. (2) Data - What are the options for data acquisition? We are interested in novel and practical forms of direct data acquisition involving e.g. dedicated sensors and forms of interaction that fulfill the specific requirements of wellbeing monitoring with respect to usability, acceptance and daily long term use. Moreover we are interested in "indirect" data acquisition by analyzing data from sources that was originally intended for something else like postings in social networks. (3) Design - How can we design systems for wellbeing? With the area of tension between data quality and ease of use, we are looking for approaches and examples that successfully fulfill the user’s needs, thereby sustaining long term usability in daily life. We are interested in successful examples of hardware and system designs possibly going beyond today’s monitoring devices. We are also interested in examples of feedback and interaction with the user, as visual or non-visual on-device displays, or as innovative smartphone or PC based systems. *** Submission *** We invite researchers and practitioners from different communities including but not limited to - life logging and quantified self, - data analysis, - health and wellbeing. Authors should submit non-anonymized position papers of up to four pages in the CHI Extended Abstract format ( http://chi2014.acm.org/authors/format#extendedformat) to beyond-qs@offis.de. We encourage, but do not require bringing demonstrators. Papers will be reviewed by the organizers and external experts according to their significance and quality, to innovation, and to their potential to stimulate discussions. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must register for the workshop and at least one day of the main conference. *** Organizers Jochen Meyer, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Germany Steven Simske, HP Labs, USA Katie Siek, Indiana University, USA Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland Hermie J Hermens, Roessingh Research and Development, The Netherlands |
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