the value of location lifelogging for health & wellness

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

The Value of Location Lifelogging for Health & Wellness

Adrienne H. Andrew, Kevin Eustice, Andy Hicklaha@aro.com, k@aro.com, andy@aro.com

ARO, Inc

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Motivation

• Location lifelogging plays an important role in providing context for behavior

• Will enable us to build more effective, impactful tools

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

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.

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

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

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Location Lifelogging

• Logging location traces of your life• Examples:– Google Latitude, Foursquare, PlaceMe, Moves,

Quadstreaker, Chronos• Challenges: – Battery life– Availability– Value! Making sense of the data

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Making Sense of Location Traces

• Identifying stays versus travels• Identifying roles of stays and travels• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift• Defining cohorts

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

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?

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna Blvd

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Making Sense of Location Traces

• Identifying stays versus travels• Identifying roles of stays and travels• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift• Defining cohorts

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

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

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna Blvd

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Morning Commute

Evening Commute

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Making Sense of Location Traces

• Identifying stays versus travels• Identifying roles of stays and travels• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift• Defining cohorts

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

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?

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Making Sense of Location Traces

• Identifying stays versus travels• Identifying roles of stays and travels• Recognizing patterns, routines and drift• Defining cohorts

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

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

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Combining Location with Health and Wellness Data

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Visits to the Soccer Field

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Calories Burned

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Calories Burned

Steps Taken

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

123 Ravenna Blvd ARO, IncHogan’s Corner

Shell Station GLSA 123 Ravenna BlvdHome Work

My Dry CleanersGas Station Childcare Home

Calories Burned

Steps Taken

Calories Consumed

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

Impact on health and wellness

• Problem solving• Contextual understanding• Contextual reminders/information– Intervention opportunity?

• Recognizing drift

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

THANK YOU!

Questions? Comments? Want to talk more? Adrienne Andrew

ARO, Incaha@aro.com

Lifelogging for Pervasive Health5 May 2013

• People who want to change but struggle don’t know why

• People are bad at describing what they do and why they do it