Supporting Patient-Provider Communication and Engagement with Personal Informatics Data

Personal informatics data are prevalent in clinical care today. My research builds an understanding patient and provider needs and challenges to advance the design of personal informatics systems and theoretical understandings of patient-provider collaboration. Through studies of patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and people who want to eat healthier, I study people's current tracking experiences and their collaborative review practices with providers. Based on these findings, I propose design and theoretical considerations regarding interactions among providers, patients, and patient-tracked data. I design and evaluate systems in situ to understand potential use of light-weight data collection and integration to support collaboration around personal informatics data.