Assisted Self Reflection: Combining Lifetracking, Sensemaking, & Personal Information Management

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Brennan Moore, Max Van Kleek, David R. Karger, mc schraefel
Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, 2010 Apr 10

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Moore, B., Kleek, M. V., Karger, D. R., & mc schraefel. (2010). Assisted Self Reflection: Combining Lifetracking, Sensemaking, & Personal Information Management. In Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA.

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Moore, Brennan, Max Van Kleek, David R. Karger, and mc schraefel. “Assisted Self Reflection: Combining Lifetracking, Sensemaking, &Amp; Personal Information Management.” In Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA, 2010.

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Moore, Brennan, et al. “Assisted Self Reflection: Combining Lifetracking, Sensemaking, &Amp; Personal Information Management.” Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010, 2010.

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@inproceedings{moore2010a,
  title = {Assisted Self Reflection: Combining Lifetracking, Sensemaking, & Personal Information Management},
  year = {2010},
  month = apr,
  day = {10},
  address = {Atlanta, GA},
  author = {Moore, Brennan and Kleek, Max Van and Karger, David R. and mc schraefel},
  booktitle = {Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010},
  month_numeric = {4}
}

The web, personal computers and instant ubiquitous digital communications have brought unprecedented constant demands on our attention. As a result, people do not spend as much time thinking, reflecting upon situations, decisions and activities as they used to. As a consequence, people feel less organized, and often lack the situational clarity to make informed decisions. In this paper, we present an ongoing project designed to make self-reflection an integral part of daily personal information management activity, and to provide facilities for fostering greater self-understanding through exploration of captured personal activity logs. We describe an application that visualizes such personal activity logs using many available “life-tracking” tools, and uses visual and textual PIM metaphors to convey this information in a familiar way that is personally relevant and meaningful.