Ian Li's dashboard

I created a survey (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ianl/pisurvey/slife.php) that explores how people collect and explore personal information, i.e., information about you and your behavior that is recorded over time, e.g., your spending habits, your energy usage, your weight, your health records, etc.

After completing the survey, you will be entered into the raffle for a $25 Amazon gift certificate. Please leave your correct email address at the end of the survey, so that we can contact you if your name is randomly picked.

If you have questions or comments about the survey, email me at ianli@cmu.edu.

Why am I doing this?

Like most people who use Slife, I have tracked various aspects of my life. I have logged my gas mileage, kept my bank statements, wrote down how much I worked and slept, and many more, planning some day to sit down and graph the data to better understand my own behavior. When I entered the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, I started studying how computers can help people understand their own selves. For the first few years, I did some projects related to personal informatics (http://www.ianli.com/research), but focused primarily on physical activity, creating a system that monitors and graphs when, where, and with whom people take the most steps. Currently, I am looking beyond physical activity to understand general challenges with personal informatics: What information are people interested in recording about their lives? What problems are they experiencing in monitoring their behavior? How can exploring one's data be improved?

Thank you so much for participating!