Counting On: Humanizing self-tracked data in a connected world
veda adnani chatterjee
Project Description
Health and fitness wearables are proliferating globally, however, device abandonment rates are also surging. Counting On critiques normative practices to speculate alternate design systems for biological data from wearables. Using an iterative development process, the author gathers her data using a consumer wearable device and uses it to propose an information architecture that categorizes the data cohesively. Thereafter, the architecture is brought to life through a series of hand-drawn, domestic, embedded visualizations. The visualizations aim to elicit empathy, enmesh within the user’s lived experience and present diverse biological data cohesively, to empower users to manage their health and well-being autonomously.
BIO
Veda has spent the last seven years as a User Experience Designer with a passion for Healthcare User Experiences. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Design in Digital Futures at OCADU, and developing expertise within data visualization with a focus on data from the human body for the democratization of healthcare. She has an interest in working with wearable technology, and more specifically soft circuitry. She teaches the Introduction to UX and UI design course at OCAD U Continuing Studies and is a Research Assistant at the Visual Analytics Lab where her practice focuses on data humanism and fluency.