Abstract
As an emerging trend in big data science, applications based on the Quantified-Self (QS) engage individuals in the self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental information as individuals or groups. There are new needs and opportunities for recommender systems to develop new models/approaches to support QS application users. Recommender systems can help to more easily identify relevant artifacts for users and thus improve user experiences. Currently recommender systems are widely and effectively used in the e-commerce domain (e.g., online music services, online bookstores). Next-generation QS applications could include more recommender tools for assisting the users of QS systems based on their personal self-tracking data streams from wearable electronics, biosensors, mobile phones, genomic data, and cloud-based services. In this paper, we propose three new recommendation approaches for QS applications: Virtual Coach, Virtual Nurse, and Virtual Sleep Regulator which help QS users to improve their health conditions. Virtual Coach works like a real fitness coach to recommend personalized work-out plans whereas Virtual Nurse considers the medical history and health targets of a user to recommend a suitable physical activity plan. Virtual Sleep Regulator is specifically designed for insomnia (a kind of sleep disorder) patients to improve their sleep quality with the help of recommended physical activity and sleep plans. We explain how these proposed recommender technologies can be applied on the basis of the collected QS data to create qualitative recommendations for user needs. We present example recommendation results of Virtual Sleep Regulator on the basis of the dataset from a real world QS application.
Highlights
It is a well-known fact that the average human lifetime is increasing
Applications based on the Quantified-Self (QS) engage individuals in the self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental information as individuals or groups
We have proposed three recommendation approaches Virtual Coach, Virtual Nurse, and Virtual Sleep Regulator which help users/patients to improve their health conditions
Summary
It is a well-known fact that the average human lifetime is increasing. Living longer implies the risk of age related health problems that reduce significantly the quality of life. Modern mobile and sensor technologies enable the recording of all kinds of data related to a person’s daily lifestyle, such as exercises, steps taken, body weight, food consumption, blood pressure, cigarettes smoked. This type of self-data tracking is often referred as the Quantified-Self concept (Swan 2012). We propose three new recommendation approaches on the basis of Quantified-Self:. 6, we explain our proposed recommendation approaches based on real-world datasets from Quantified-Self.
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