FutureSelf: Forecasting the Future Health Status in QS services to Promote Health Behavior Change
2014 - 2016
In the novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by ghosts showing his future that he will meet with a tragic end if he continues to be cold and miserly. After then, the imagination of future self transforms him into a changed man. We are to adopt this usefulness of imagining the future to help people change their health-related behavior. To investigate this issue, we began with defining the term Consequence Information as a consequence of continuing what a person has done in the past. We conducted a 4-week user study to explore how users interact with Consequence Information. Based on the findings from the study, we also conducted a workshop with designers to find out what designers focus on when designing quantified-self services providing Consequence Information. Finally, we suggested a framework for Consequence Information Quantified-Self Service Design. In addition, we produced a video that shows our interactive mirror concept design as an example of Consequence Information quantified-self service. Video link: https://youtu.be/9oyeeE9qK58