Everyday Life Reflection: Exploring Media Interaction with Balance, Cogito & Dott

Reflection is of increasing interest in HCI as it has many potential benefits in design, education and everyday life. In this paper, we explore media-supported reflection through the design and deployment of three concepts. In contrast to prevalent reflective approaches that are based on system-collected data, we explore how user-created media can support personal reflection. Three interactive prototypes were developed, focusing on different modalities: Balance uses audio, Cogito uses text, and Dott uses visual media. We evaluate these concepts in an in-thewild study that is both explorative and comparative. We found that the open-ended systems primarily supported reflection during the creation of media and that the use depended on opportunity and triggers. We conclude the paper with a discussion of our findings regarding the method and the implications of our findings for the broader area of design for reflection.

[1]  Paul Davidsson,et al.  Analyzing the Design Space of Personal Informatics: A State-of-practice Based Classification of Existing Tools , 2015, HCI.

[2]  Ursula M. Staudinger,et al.  Life Reflection: A Social–Cognitive Analysis of Life Review , 2001 .

[3]  Wanda Pratt,et al.  Understanding quantified-selfers' practices in collecting and exploring personal data , 2014, CHI.

[4]  J. Mezirow,et al.  How Critical Reflection Triggers Transformative Learning , 2002 .

[5]  Sean A. Munson,et al.  Reconsidering the device in the drawer: lapses as a design opportunity in personal informatics , 2016, UbiComp.

[6]  Lars Erik Holmquist,et al.  More than meets the eye: an exploratory study of context photography , 2006, NordiCHI '06.

[7]  Geraldine Fitzpatrick,et al.  Reflecting on reflection: framing a design landscape , 2010, OZCHI '10.

[8]  David E. Goldberg,et al.  On becoming a reflective practitioner , 2018, GECCO.

[9]  Constantine Stephanidis,et al.  Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Today's Technologies , 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[10]  Elise van den Hoven,et al.  Technologies for Everyday Life Reflection: Illustrating a Design Space , 2016, TEI.

[11]  Lars Erik Holmquist,et al.  Context photography: modifying the digital camera into a new creative tool , 2004, CHI EA '04.

[12]  Elise van den Hoven,et al.  Introduction to this Special Issue on Designing for Personal Memories: Past, Present, and Future , 2012, Hum. Comput. Interact..

[13]  Berry Eggen,et al.  Leaving room for improvisation: towards a design approach for open-ended play , 2013, IDC.

[14]  B. Penders,et al.  Research in the wild , 2007, Nature.

[15]  Sarvapali D. Ramchurn,et al.  It is too Hot: An In-Situ Study of Three Designs for Heating , 2016, CHI.

[16]  Kenton O'Hara,et al.  Meerkat and Tuba: Design Alternatives for Randomness, Surprise and Serendipity in Reminiscing , 2011, INTERACT.

[17]  Berry Eggen,et al.  Evaluating Interface Characteristics for Shared Lighting Systems in the Office Environment , 2017, Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.

[18]  Lorna M. Brown,et al.  Sonic gems: exploring the potential of audio recording as a form of sentimental memory capture , 2008 .

[19]  James A. Landay,et al.  Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity , 2006, CHI.

[20]  Elise van den Hoven,et al.  Ritual Camera: Exploring Domestic Technology to Remember Everyday Life , 2016, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[21]  Michael Prilla,et al.  The known universe of reflection guidance: a literature review , 2017 .

[22]  V. Braun,et al.  Using thematic analysis in psychology , 2006 .

[23]  R. J. Bogumil,et al.  The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action , 1985, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[24]  Elise van den Hoven,et al.  Balance, Cogito and Dott: Exploring Media Modalities for Everyday-life Reflection , 2017, TEI.

[25]  John Zimmerman,et al.  Designing for slowness, anticipation and re-visitation: a long term field study of the photobox , 2014, CHI.

[26]  Abigail Sellen,et al.  Beyond total capture , 2010, Commun. ACM.

[27]  Phoebe Sengers,et al.  Reflective design , 2005, Critical Computing.

[28]  Steve Whittaker,et al.  Echoes from the past: how technology mediated reflection improves well-being , 2013, CHI.

[29]  Christopher Frauenberger,et al.  Reflective Practicum: A Framework of Sensitising Concepts to Design for Transformative Reflection , 2017, CHI.

[30]  Catherine O'Sullivan.  Diaries, on-line diaries, and the future loss to archives; or, blogs and the blogging bloggers who blog them , 2007 .

[31]  Jodi Forlizzi,et al.  A stage-based model of personal informatics systems , 2010, CHI.

[32]  Tuğrul Yürük,et al.  Kitap, Tez, Sempozyum Değerlendirmeleri / John Dewey, How We Think, A Restatement of The Relation of Reflective Thinking to The Educative Process, D. C. Heath and Company, 1933, 10+301 s. , 2007 .

[33]  Maxine Glancy,et al.  "Oh and how things just don't change, the more things stay the same": Reflections on SenseCam images 18 months after capture , 2011, Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud..

[34]  Charles Hill,et al.  What do Prototypes Prototype , 1997 .

[35]  Fred A. J. Korthagen,et al.  Linking Theory and Practice: Changing the Pedagogy of Teacher Education , 1999 .

[36]  Silvia Lindtner,et al.  Fish'n'Steps: Encouraging Physical Activity with an Interactive Computer Game , 2006, UbiComp.

[37]  Daniela Petrelli,et al.  AutoTopography: what can physical mementos tell us about digital memories? , 2008, CHI.

[38]  Margaretha Ekebergh,et al.  Lifeworld‐based reflection and learning: a contribution to the reflective practice in nursing and nursing education , 2007 .

[39]  Justin Cheng,et al.  GoSlow: designing for slowness, reflection and solitude , 2011, CHI Extended Abstracts.

[40]  J. Dewey.  How we think : a restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process , 1934 .

[41]  Richard Banks,et al.  From Research Prototype to Research Product , 2016, CHI.

[42]  Steve Benford,et al.  Ambiguity as a resource for design , 2003, CHI '03.

[43]  William W. Gaver,et al.  Alternatives: exploring information appliances through conceptual design proposals , 2000, CHI.

[44]  Lorna M. Brown,et al.  Sonic gems: exploring the potential of audio recording as a form of sentimental memory capture , 2008, BCS HCI.

[45]  Phoebe Sengers,et al.  Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation , 2006, DIS '06.

[46]  Elise van den Hoven,et al.  Informing Design for Reflection: an Overview of Current Everyday Practices , 2016, NordiCHI.

[47]  Eric Baumer,et al.  Reflective Informatics: Conceptual Dimensions for Designing Technologies of Reflection , 2015, CHI.

[48]  Vera D. Khovanskaya,et al.  Reviewing reflection: on the use of reflection in interactive system design , 2014, Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.

[49]  Nina Valkanova,et al.  Reveal-it!: the impact of a social visualization projection on public awareness and discourse , 2013, CHI.

[50]  Moin Syed,et al.  The Past, Present, and Future of Eriksonian Identity Research: Introduction to the Special Issue , 2012 .

[51]  Jack Mezirow,et al.  Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood: A Guide to Transformative and Emancipatory Learning , 1990 .

[52]  B. J. Fogg,et al.  A behavior model for persuasive design , 2009, Persuasive '09.

[53]  G. Gibbs.  Learning by doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods , 1988 .