Digital Histories for Future Health

The digital trails we leave
by using various social, mobile and web services and
self-tracking tools can be used to create a compelling
digital narrative of past behaviors. The use of these
digital narratives should be explored for the purpose of
facilitating self-efficacy and positively re-framing health
behaviors.

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1. Digital histories for Future health* Personal Informatics Workshop | CHI 2012 Ernesto Ramirez & Eric Hekler *Technology not included
2. Welcome to the Internet Age
3. Welcome to the Internet Age Database
4. Health Data Be a better person tomorrow.
5. The Data Knows who you are and who you were
6. Using our Data histories Reminders of Previous Success
7. Using our Data histories Reminders of Previous Success Historical Behavior Prompting
8. Using our Data histories Reminders of Previous Success Historical Behavior Prompting Contextual Behavior Reminders
9. This morning was no different than any other morning. I’m always eager to read my daily ‘Abe’ emails and as I read it in bed this morning I was reminded that around this time last year I was training for a half-marathon and logged an impressive (for me, at least) 6.24 mile run last year. As I read my email, I was instantly motivated to do the same run I did last year, and I did. I have been recently motivated to get back into running and the healthy lifestyle I had last year, but without a doubt this nostalgic trigger (the ‘Abe’ email) I received this morning aided in my motivation and sent it over the top and made me push harder. I did just that and almost matched my run last year. One could say that the last year me performed better, but in my eyes, last year me just high-fived me. bit.ly/hi5me Using our Data histories: An Example