Designing for Mood Tracking: An Explorative Study of Manual Data Collection Methods

by Magnus Kromann-Larsen

Introduction

Outline

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Mood Tracking

• Branch of Personal Informatics
• Lifestyle tracking, not therapeutic

Focus

Data Collection Method

The Body

Methodology

• Nine participants (5 women and 4 men)
• Interviews
• Coding

Limitations

• Bullet One
• Bullet Two
• Bullet Three

Results

• Practicality
• Impact
• Effort
• Memory-cue
• Time of tracking
• Ordet of input
• Aesthetic expression

Conclusion