Heekyoung Jung
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Today an increasing number of personal informatics tools and platforms support intended behavior change and goal achievement through data-based self-reflection. The scope of self-reflection expands with emerging sources, goals, and challenges of human well-being, demanding for reframing recent computer-mediated reflective practice. This study investigates a broader range of contexts and forms of self-reflection that support navigating one's mind and goals beyond achieving preset goals. This paper describes contemporary issues on human well-being and two exploratory studies—one conducted in a traveling artists' residency and the other in a design studio class—which surveyed various triggers, contexts, and forms of self-reflection. By connecting the insights from the two studies, I propose evocative and generative reflection as an alternative perspective to tracking-based, goal-oriented reflection and discuss implications for the design for reflection with a focus on the creative dimension of human well-being.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376231
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2020.acm.org/)