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MyRoR : towards a story-inspired experience platform for lifestyle management scenarios
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The lifestyle management area has become increasingly important during the past years
due to the present as well as the expected impact on healthcare systems created by
people living longer and with various chronic conditions. The work described in this thesis
is motivated by an individual and societal drive towards empowering individuals with
knowledge and technological means in order to increase self-awareness and lead to
better self-management of personal wellbeing. However, lifestyles are complex and
evolving, therefore when we build systems aimed at this area it is not enough to only
focus on certain aspects of users' lives. Instead, we need to take a more holistic and long-term
view of what is important and try to capture as many aspects of people's lives as
possible. By doing this we can move from focusing on what happened towards why it
happened and better support users in self-awareness, self-understanding, self-reflection
and, ultimately, self-change.
There is a lot of value in the information we generate through our daily interactions with
computing devices. This thesis presents the work I performed towards creating MyRoR,
an experience platform aimed at lifestyle management scenarios. At the core of this work
is a novel story-inspired paradigm for correlating, abstracting, presenting and sharing
multi-faceted user information through a dynamic and adaptive creation process.
The main contributions of this work consist of: (1) a design framework and realisation of
a novel story-inspired paradigm for modelling, organising and presenting information
within a lifestyle management system; (2) a design framework, architecture and
realisation of a multi-parametric experience platform for lifestyle management scenarios
that can capture varied information, store it, model it, process it, correlate it and present
it to an end user at various levels of abstraction; (3) valuable user-level in sights into
experiencing such systems in order to create self-understanding and support self-reflection.
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