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

DOIPixel4Pixel Project

Collaborators

Collaborators: Prof. Parastoo Abtahi (Princeton University), Tommy Bruzzese, Alyssa Romanos, Anna Yang, Victoria Ding, Prof. Sean Follmer, Prof. James Landay (Stanford University)

Date

2019 - Present

Keywords

mood tracking

interviews

surveys

user study

personal informatics

visualization

computer vision

digital art

Team Members

Liz Murnane

Liz Murnane