Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection

We present Activity River, a personal visualization tool which enables individuals to plan, log, and reflect on their self-defined activities. We are interested in supporting this type of reflective practice as prior work has shown that reflection can help people plan and manage their time effective...

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Main Authors: ASENIERO, Bon Adriel, PERIN, Charles, WILLETT, Wesley, TANG, Anthony, CARPENDALE, Sheelagh
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-89602023-08-15T01:24:01Z Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection ASENIERO, Bon Adriel PERIN, Charles WILLETT, Wesley TANG, Anthony CARPENDALE, Sheelagh We present Activity River, a personal visualization tool which enables individuals to plan, log, and reflect on their self-defined activities. We are interested in supporting this type of reflective practice as prior work has shown that reflection can help people plan and manage their time effectively. Hence, we designed Activity River based on five design goals (visualize historical and contextual data, facilitate comparison of goals and achievements, engage viewers with delightful visuals, support authorship, and enable flexible planning and logging) which we distilled from the Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction literature. To explore our approach's strengths and limitations, we conducted a qualitative study of Activity River using a role-playing method. Through this qualitative exploration, we illustrate how our participants envisioned using our visualization to perform dynamic and continuous reflection on their activities. We observed that they were able to assess their progress towards their plans and adapt to unforeseen circumstances using our tool. 2020-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7957 info:doi/10.1145/3399715.3399921 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8960/viewcontent/3399715.3399921.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Life-logging Personal Visualization Reflection tools Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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language English
topic Life-logging
Personal Visualization
Reflection tools
Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
spellingShingle Life-logging
Personal Visualization
Reflection tools
Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
ASENIERO, Bon Adriel
PERIN, Charles
WILLETT, Wesley
TANG, Anthony
CARPENDALE, Sheelagh
Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
description We present Activity River, a personal visualization tool which enables individuals to plan, log, and reflect on their self-defined activities. We are interested in supporting this type of reflective practice as prior work has shown that reflection can help people plan and manage their time effectively. Hence, we designed Activity River based on five design goals (visualize historical and contextual data, facilitate comparison of goals and achievements, engage viewers with delightful visuals, support authorship, and enable flexible planning and logging) which we distilled from the Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction literature. To explore our approach's strengths and limitations, we conducted a qualitative study of Activity River using a role-playing method. Through this qualitative exploration, we illustrate how our participants envisioned using our visualization to perform dynamic and continuous reflection on their activities. We observed that they were able to assess their progress towards their plans and adapt to unforeseen circumstances using our tool.
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author ASENIERO, Bon Adriel
PERIN, Charles
WILLETT, Wesley
TANG, Anthony
CARPENDALE, Sheelagh
author_facet ASENIERO, Bon Adriel
PERIN, Charles
WILLETT, Wesley
TANG, Anthony
CARPENDALE, Sheelagh
author_sort ASENIERO, Bon Adriel
title Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
title_short Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
title_full Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
title_fullStr Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
title_full_unstemmed Activity river: Visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
title_sort activity river: visualizing planned and logged personal activities for reflection
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7957
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8960/viewcontent/3399715.3399921.pdf
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