The Value of Location Lifelogging for Health & Wellness
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The Value of Location Lifelogging
for Health & Wellness
Adrienne H. Andrew, Kevin Eustice, Andy Hickl
aha@aro.com, k@aro.com, andy@aro.com
ARO, Inc
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Motivation
• Location lifelogging plays an important role in
providing context for behavior
• Will enable us to build more effective,
impactful tools
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What and Why?
• The problem we are addressing is in
supporting people in behavior changes around
health and wellness.
• The growth of self-monitoring tools has
enabled many people to more closely monitor
aspects of their health and wellness.
• These tools are unable to provide any smart
guidance or wisdom about what to do about
that information.
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Outline
• What is location lifelogging?
• Making sense of location traces:
– Identifying stays versus travels
– Identifying roles of stays and travels
– Recognizing patterns, routines and drift
– Defining cohorts
• Incorporating health & wellness data
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Location Lifelogging
• Logging location traces of your life
• Examples:
– Google
Latitude, Foursquare, PlaceMe, Moves, Quadstrea
ker, Chronos
• Challenges:
– Battery life
– Availability
– Value! Making sense of the data
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Making Sense of Location Traces
• Identifying stays versus travels
• Identifying roles of stays and travels
• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift
• Defining cohorts
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Stays versus Travels
• Goal: Identify periods of traveling versus
periods of staying in one place.
• Challenges for real-time detection:
– When is the transition between a travel and a
stay?
– How long does someone have to stay in one place
to qualify as a stay?
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Making Sense of Location Traces
• Identifying stays versus travels
• Identifying roles of stays and travels
• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift
• Defining cohorts
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Identifying Roles
• Roles capture the semantic meaning of place
to an individual
– “Home”
– “Work”
– “Commute to work”
• Challenges:
– Different places have different roles for different
people
• The grocery store
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Morning
Commute
Evening Commute
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Making Sense of Location Traces
• Identifying stays versus travels
• Identifying roles of stays and travels
• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift
• Defining cohorts
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Recognizing Routine and Patterns
• Goal:
– Identify recurring patterns in places
• Challenge:
– It’s unclear how long patterns exist
– It’s unclear how long it takes to determine a
pattern
• Has the pattern changed by the time we recognize it?
• Do some people have more routinized patterns than
others?
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Making Sense of Location Traces
• Identifying stays versus travels
• Identifying roles of stays and travels
• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift
• Defining cohorts
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Cohort Identification
• Goal:
– Identify groups of people who are similar in ways
other than primary demographics
• Challenge:
– Need many people for meaningful cohorts
• Value:
– Provide insight into behavior
• Identify role models & support partners
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Visits to the
Soccer Field
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Calories
Burned
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Calories
Burned
Steps Taken
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Calories
Burned
Steps Taken
Calories
Consumed
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Impact on health and wellness
• Problem solving
• Contextual understanding
• Contextual reminders/information
– Intervention opportunity?
• Recognizing drift
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THANK YOU!
Questions? Comments? Want to talk more?
Adrienne Andrew
ARO, Inc
aha@aro.com
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• People who want to change but struggle don’t
know why
• People are bad at describing what they do and
why they do it
Hinweis der Redaktion
A parallel concept in photographic lifelogging is how to make sense of all the images.