1. Enabling foresight and reflection:
Interactive simulations to
support behaviour change
By Lisa Koeman, Yvonne Rogers & Jon Bird
ICRI Cities · April 2013 · CHI Personal Informatics Workshop

2. Personal informatics tools
generally try to support
behaviour change

3. There is a strong focus on
self-reflection using
previously collected data

4. Furthermore, goals,
(dis)incentives and comparisons
are used to motivate people
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But short term gains remain
of more interest than long term goals
How can we support long term thinking?

6. Possibly by facilitating foresight:
insight into the consequences behaviour
changes will have in the future

7. Seeing we are poor at linking our behaviour
to proven effects, visualising explicit
predictions might help with:

8. Answering “what if?” questions
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9. Setting and achieving goals

10. Number of design challenges
Calculation
Interaction
Visualisation

11. Multi-faceted system
to support sustainable lifestyles
for urban inhabitants

12. Thanks!
For any questions or comments, please get in touch:
Lisa Koeman
Intel Collaborative Research Institute
on Sustainable Connected Cities
University College London
lisa.koeman.12@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.cities.io