Tangible Interactions with Physicalizations of Personal Experience Data

... Topics of Medical Sciences are found in 34 papers, such as a cardiac 3D print to understand congenital heart disease in Hadeed et al. (2018). The theme of Geoscience, Geography & Cartography is found in 33 papers as physicalizations are often in form of landscapes (Anderson & Jones, 2020) or globes (Dadkhahfard et al., 2018). We have also identified additional themes such as Environmentalism & Climate Change (Von Ompteda, 2019), Sociology, Demography & Psychology (Claes & Moere, 2015) and more. ...

... Textures and tactility of data points in personal data physicalizations assist with storytelling and recollection of experiences. Anderson and Jones (2020) have noticed in their study that participants touched relevant parts of their physicalizations or traced routes while sharing personal anecdotes or stories about the terrain. Desjardins and Tihanyi (2019) discuss that textures of personal data points in their ceramic cup designs might trigger memories, reflection or interpretation of information. ...

... Self-reflection empowers athletes to draw upon their prior experiences, effectively leveraging them to improve future performances in pursuit of their goals [63]. Previous studies have explored the use of various tools to support self-reflection on running data, including dashboards [38], applications on smartwatches, smartphones, and smart devices [23,26,36], physicalization of data [1,32], and integrated displays on running shoes [60]. While these reflection tools have different objectives, they share the common goal of enhancing self-knowledge, self-modelling, and goal tracking to help with promoting positive running behaviour, motor learning [14,51], and self-development in sports [22]. ...