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Annotation Categories BENEFIT – BENEFIT OF TRACKING CONCERN – CONCERN OR “CON” OF TRACKING POSITIVE REACTION – INTERESTED/WANTS TO DO ONE OF THE PRESENTED EXAMPLES NEUTRAL REACTION – DOESN’T CARE OR DOESN’T NEED TO DO ONE OF THE PRESENTED EXAMPLES NEGATIVE REACTION – WOULDN’T WANT TO DO ONE OF THE PRESENTED EXAMPLES IDEA VARIABLE – IDEA FOR SOMETHING TO TRACK IDEA RELATIONSHIP – IDEA FOR HOW VARIABLES MIGHT BE RELATED IDEA USE – IDEA FOR HOW TRACKED INFORMATION COULD BE USED OR IDEA FOR HOW TRACKING SHOULD BE DONE PROCEDURE – SOMETHING RELATED TO HOW THE INTERVIEW WAS DONE CURRENTLY TRACKING – PARTICIPANT IS ALREADY TRACKING AND RECORDING CURRENTLY MONITORING – PARTICIPANT IS ALREADY MONITORING VALUES (BUT NOT RECORDING) 1 Interview Notes and Transcription ID: [L1] Date: 6/18/04, 1:11-2:15PM (64 minutes) Participant type: Participant, through poster Demographics: Man, 40s Location: House_n Audio file: DM100023 • Shown 5 Displays: Body, Activity Diary, Snoop, Daily Rhythm, Family GENERAL REACTION: STRONGLY POSITIVE, ALREADY A TRACKER, WANTS TO TRACK MORE(+) :[L1] • Already manually tracking a number of health and activity variables (already a serious tracker) • Uses tracking to motivate behavior change • Trains for triathlon • Would like to use tracking data with family [What I monitor] (0:00:00) The participant completes detailed records of aspects of his life and was intrigued by the premise of the project. BENEFIT: MAKING A BEHAVIOR A HABIT BY RECORDING IT :[L1] BENEFIT: ASSOCIATING A BEHAVIOR WITH HOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL AFTERWARD (E.G., GUILTY) :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: NUMBER OF ALCOHOL DRINKS :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: EATING FAT (DONUTS) :[L1] “If I just try to make these things a habit, I’ll be healthier, generally, and the only way I can do that is if I have to write something down and track it. If I go back and say, what did I do last month, and I say well, there was this one day I went out to a bar and had 6 drinks, I feel guilty, and I say, if I track it and I have to write down 6 drinks, then I’m not going to do that any more. Or if I sleep late, or if I, I always feel bad after, so if I have to keep a journal of that, then I’ll be less apt to corner myself and do something on a whim. Same thing with eating donuts or eating fat. I track how much fat I eat and how much exercise, I want to exercise at least an hour a day.” :[L1] The participant shows me his tracking records, in a daytimer book. CURRENTLY TRACKING: TIME WAKING UP AND GOING TO SLEEP :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: TOTAL HOURS OF SLEEP :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: HOURS OF WORK :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: SPORTS AND TRAINING :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: MEDITATION :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: BREAKS FROM TRAINING :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: SEX, FREQUENCY AND SATISIFACTION (REVEALED LATER) :[L1] “I’ve been through several different ways to do this. This is just monthly data tracking I’ve done over the years. It says what time I went to bed and what time I get up, total hours of sleep, total hours of work, caffeine, alcohol, swimming, biking, running, lifting, calisthenics, mediation, yoga, and some other, I don’t know, other personal things I have in here that kind of affect my life that I want to keep track of. I keep it all so it’s very visible so I can track it and see exactly what I’ve done, what races I’ve done, when I’ve taken a vacation, and how good I feel about myself. So if I do that, it helps me move forward and not do the things I don’t want to do.” :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: WATER DRINKING :[L1] 2 CURRENTLY TRACKING: FOODS, VEGETABLES :[L1] CURRENTLY TRACKING: VITAMINS :[L1] “How much water I drink, foods, vegetables, supplements, actual meals that I have had, I keep track of everything I’ve had, then exercise on the other side.” :[L1] IDEA RELATIONSHIP: DISTANCE, PACE, HEARTRATE :[L1] IDEA RELATIONSHIP: DRINKING AND HOLIDAYS/SOCIAL OCCASIONS :[L1] He reviews his records weekly and monthly. He uploads the data into a spreadsheet, but it is difficult to organize and graph. He looks at mileage that he’s run throughout a month, pace, and heartrate. He also tracks how many alcohol drinks he has for the month and notes that around Christmas time, when going to a lot of parties, this value can really add up. “I’ll say okay, I’ve had too many drinks for this month.” IDEA RELATIONSHIP: WEIGHT AND LIFTING :[L1] IDEA RELATIONSHIP: ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND PACE :[L1] IDEA USE: TRIGGERING A TEMPORARY ADJUSTMENT TO COMPENSATE FOR UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR :[L1] He looks at how his weight is affected by how much lifting he does and how that, along with aspects such as alcohol consumption, affects his pace. He does not record his conclusions, but he may make behavioral changes, such as getting up earlier, running more, give up coffee, drink less when he and his co-workers go to a bar after work, or “not eat donuts when there are free donuts day at the office.” He makes an adjustment for a period of time, then goes back to the habit until an event triggers a change again. “I like all those things, I like donuts, these are types of things that I enjoy and if I stay off of them for that long, I get burned out.” :[L1] “I only lift for four months out of the year, because getting up at 5am to lift is hard. So I say, okay, I need a break, so I’ll give myself a little mini-vacation. It would be nice to make it a habit, keep off all this stuff and exercise 2 hours a day, I would love that, but there’s just too many things going in my life.” :[L1] “These are the things that are most important to me, exercise and health, and being happy. If I don’t make that a number one priority, it’s very easy not to exercise. It’s very easy to stop at McDonald’s and have a hamburger. All these things in life makes it so easy to do the bad things, that you really have to force yourself to avoid them. The only way I can avoid them is to record, okay you were bad, or you were good.” :[L1] “He’s been tracking for 10 years. He tries to keep up a four-week cycle for running, biking, and swimming to train for Iron Man races. He notes that being at the wrong part of the cycle at the race can be detrimental, so he carefully structures his training according to a schedule and does more tracking with a spreadsheet during that period (miles per week, pace, type of run). He notes though that there is so much data from the other areas of his life, he does not include that in his charting analysis. The times when tracking matters the most, for his training, he has the least time to track. He would like to see, for example, whether meditation and stretching, affects his race and affects how he feels, but hasn’t had time to do that analysis.” :[L1] BENEFIT: FINDING AN OPTIMAL STATE :[L1] His goal is to “be optimal,” and to feel good, regardless of performance. IDEA USE: COMBINED MUSIC, HEART-RATE, GPS FOR ATHLETES :[L1] He has a heart rate monitor and would like a pace tracker, but has difficulty carrying all his devices. He hopes that there will be a combined MP3, heart rate, GPS device available in the future. 3 He has a PDA and has tried doing the tracking on it, but has not found software that works well for both recording and graphing. [Body] (0:11:15) POSITIVE REACTION: SKIN RECORD :[L1] POSITIVE REACTION: HEALING TIME :[L1] IDEA VARIABLE: HEALING FROM SUNBURN :[L1] IDEA VARIABLE: NUMBER OF COLDS, ALLERGIC REACTIONS :[L1] IDEA VARIABLE: PSA :[L1] “I do this [keep a skin record], actually, I had spots on my back from a bad sunburn. Every time I’d go to a doctor, they would say, oh they’re just spots. I wanted to track them over time to see if they are changing. I keep track of whenever I’m sick or have a cold. When I start feeling bad and how long I’m feeling bad. Not things like papercut, although that would be – if you keep track of the little things, and something takes a long time to heal, something’s wrong. Some of the yearly things I keep track of are cholesterol, PSA, different types of blood levels. So when I go to my annual physical, I have a medical folder, and they ask me how I’ve been, I can say I have had two colds, allergies, I had this. My PSA last year was this, and my cholesterol was this, my blood pressure was this, so when they say it, I can know what it is in relation to what I’ve been year after year.” :[L1] BENEFIT: EVIDENCE FOR CONVERSATION WITH DOCTOR :[L1] He does not share his records directly, but he says he would share photographs of skin change to have “proof” so the doctor would take him seriously. He was surprised to see these examples and said he thought he was alone in tracking. NEUTRAL REACTION: MUSCLE TONE – MEASURED IN ANOTHER FORM (EXERCISE COMPLETED) :[L1] POSITIVE REACTION: EXERCISE RECORD :[L1] POSITIVE REACTION: ACTIVITY RECORD :[L1] He was curious about how muscle tone tracking would be done, but stated that he would not be interested in tracking it, as it follows from the exercise he does.

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