Empower Research Lab

Empower Research Lab

Pixel4Pixel

Augmenting health self-tracking through artistic expression, using the Year in Pixels technique to visually document mood and encourage emotional awareness.

Description

The Pixel4Pixel project is a collaboration with researchers at Stanford and Princeton to explore how digital tools can augment health self-tracking practices that involve physical materials and artistic artifacts. We specifically focus on the Year in Pixels technique for visually documenting mood and building emotional awareness. https://www.instagram.com/stanford_pixel4pixel/

Publications

Understanding Physical Practices and the Role of Technology in Manual Self-Tracking

Parastoo Abtahi, Victoria Ding, Anna. C. Yang, Tommy Bruzzese, Alyssa B. Romanos, **Elizabeth L. Murnane**, Sean Follmer, James A. Landay

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) · 4(4), Pages 1–24 · 2020

self-tracking

surveys

interviews

paper-based tools

Keywords

mood tracking

interviews

surveys

user study

personal informatics

visualization

computer vision

digital art

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Murnane Research Group at Dartmouth College | Contact: empowerlab@dartmouth.edu | Last updated: March 2025
Thayer School of Engineering