BIBLIOS

Document type
Conference papers

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Goals for Goal Setting: A Scoping Review on Personal Informatics

Participants in the publication
Tina Ekhtiar (Author)
Armağan Karahanoğlu (Author)
Rúben Gouveia (Author)
Dep. Informática
Geke Ludden (Author)

Summary
Research has extensively explored how personal informatics tools can support people's health goal setting practices. To understand the current state and reflect on the future of goal setting in personal informatics, we report the results of a scoping review of 51 papers that use and provide design implications for implementing goal setting. Our review highlights six implications for using goal setting in personal informatics tools (clarity, transparency, flexibility, framing and reframing, personalization, and reflection). We find that goal setting is becoming increasingly complex as the number of goals and their characteristics increase. We discuss these insights and point towards the importance of supporting self-efficacy during goal setting, showing adaptive goal evolution over time, reducing burden during goal setting, and framing goals to understand the complexity of health goals and support a holistic view on goal setting.


Event
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Publication Identifiers

Address
Pittsburgh PA USA

Publisher
ACM

Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596087
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596087

Awards
Honorable Mention for Best Paper (Top 5%)

Rankings
CORE A* (2023) - - Human-centred computing

Keywords
personal informatics goal setting self-tracking digital health

Tags
personal informatics goal setting self-tracking digital health

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