LogIn: Unlock Journaling System for Personal Informatics
This addresses the problem of burdensome self-reporting for users in health and wellness contexts, though it is incremental as it builds on prior work.
The paper tackled the high burden of in situ self-reporting by introducing unlock journaling gestures for health and wellness measures, finding that it is less intrusive than reminders, dramatically improves journaling frequency, and provides equal or better timeliness.
In situ self-report is widely used in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and for assessment and intervention in health and wellness. Unfortunately, it remains limited by high burdens. We examine unlock journaling as an alternative. Specifically, we build upon recent work to introduce single slide unlock journaling gestures appropriate for health and wellness measures. We then present the first field study comparing unlock journaling with traditional diaries and notification based reminders in self report of health and wellness measures. We find unlock journaling is less intrusive than reminders, dramatically improves frequency of journaling, and can provide equal or better timeliness. Where appropriate to broader design needs, unlock journaling is thus an overall promising method for in situ self report.