Aesthetic physical items for visualizing personal sleep data

Abstract

In the area of wellness and health, people are currently logging and monitoring an increasing amount of information of their everyday lives. The visualization of the logged data is currently typically presented in a mobile phone app. Here, we present our ongoing research on physical visualizations of sleep data, monitored with a wearable sensor. Our aim is to create tangible artifacts where the data has been integrated to the design in an aesthetic way, and hence provide information appliances that people can reflect upon.