Mapping and Taking Stock of the Personal Informatics Literature
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The paper maps and labels 523 papers from ACM, IEEE, and PubMed and finds 83% health and wellness focus with nearly half of those on physical activity; contributions increasingly favor studies over new artifacts, and few papers propose technical or human-centered fixes for privacy or surveillance. The review highlights gaps: stages beyond collection and reflection, engaging domain experts, addressing bias against marginalized groups, and infrastructure for cohort-level analysis, and it ships an online mapping tool to browse the tagged literature.
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