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ABSTRACT

This research is about how to help diabetics reflect upon and improve their own health practice by collecting and visualizing health related information. We introduced a new type of data collection to diabetics, photography, to complement the data they usually collect, blood sugar levels. Diabetics shoot pictures of meals, exercise, work, play and anything else they feel impacts health. We combine the quantitative glucose measurements with qualitative portraits of action into unified data visualizations. In doing so, we hope to make the relationship between physiology and behavior an object for discussion and reflection. More so, we hope that diabetics who viewed these data will begin to develop new interpretations of their lifestyles that will ultimately lead to healthier activities.

REFERENCES

• 1: National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases. (1998). Diabetes Overview (NIH Publication 96-3873). Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health.
• 2: B. K. Smith , E. Blankinship, Justifying imagery: multimedia support for learning through explanation, IBM Systems Journal, v.39 n.3-4, p.749-767, July 2000
• 3: The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group. (1993). The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications in insulin-dependant diabetes mellitus. New England Journal of Medicine, 329, 977--986.

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
data visualization, education, health