Supporting Wellbeing Through Improving Interactions and Understanding in Self-Monitoring Systems

We use computing devices at work, at home and on the go. We generate huge amount of data that is stored (either temporarily or permanent) on our machines or on remote servers. There is a lot of value in this information and many external parties already further exploit some of it. So, if others consider our information important why don't we take proper advantage of it? How can we use the information we generate to our own advantage? How can we use this information to improve our lives and support our wellbeing? And how can we create better environments that will be able to offer more personalized and engaging interfaces supporting such diversity of information? We offer here our answer to such questions by presenting the MyRoR system with its main goals of better supporting self-understanding and offer more natural interfaces for information visualizations, based on personalized and interactive stories.