Things you don't want to know about yourself: ambivalence about tracking and sharing personal information for behaviour change

Authors:
Bernd Ploderer;Wally Smith;Steve Howard;Jon Pearce;Ron Borland
Affiliations:
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia and Cancer Council Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Technologies that facilitate the collection and sharing of personal information can feed people's desire for enhanced self-knowledge and help them to change their behaviour, yet for various reasons people can also be reluctant to use such technologies. This paper explores this tension through an interview study in the context of smoking cessation. Our findings show that smokers and recent ex-smokers were ambivalent about their behaviour change as well as about collecting personal information through technology and sharing it with other users. We close with a summary of three challenges emerging from such ambivalence and directions to address them.