Hi,
I'm Ian Li!

About

I recently finished my Ph.D. in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisors were Anind Dey and Jodi Forlizzi. My research was in the area of personal informatics: understanding, designing, and developing technologies that help people better understand their own behavior. My thesis explored how to use contextual information in personal informatics systems to improve self-knowledge.

Publications

Refereed Full Conference Papers

Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies
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Ian Li, Anind Dey, and Jodi Forlizzi. Ubicomp 2011, pp. 405-414.
A Stage-Based Model of Personal Informatics Systems
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Ian Li, Anind Dey, and Jodi Forlizzi. CHI 2010, pp. 557-566.
Here's What I Did: Sharing and Reusing Web Activity with ActionShot
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Ian Li, Jeffrey Nichols, Tessa Lau, Clemens Drews, and Allen Cypher. CHI 2010, pp. 723-732
My Agent as Myself or Another: Effects on Credibility and Listening to Advice
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Ian Li, Jodi Forlizzi, Anind Dey, and Sara Kiesler. DPPI 2007, Helsinki, Finland, 2007, pp. 194-208.
a CAPpella: Programming by Demonstration of Context-Aware Applications
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Anind Dey, Raffay Hamid, Chris Beckmann, Ian Li, and Daniel Hsu. CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, 2004, pp. 33-40.

Refereed Short Conference Papers

Designing Personal Informatics Applications and Tools that Facilitate Monitoring of Behaviors
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Ian Li. UIST 2009 Doctoral Symposium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009.
Beyond Counting Steps: Using Context to Improve Monitoring of Physical Activity
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Ian Li. Ubicomp 2009 Doctoral Colloquium, Orlando, FL, 2009.
Using Visualizations to Increase Compliance in Experience Sampling
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Gary Hsieh, Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi, and Scott Hudson. Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, Korea, 2008, pp. 164-167.
The Book as User Interface: Lowering the Entry Cost to Email for Elders
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Scott Davidoff, Carson Bloomberg, Ian Li, Jennifer Mankoff, and Susan Fussell. CHI 2005, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 1331-1334.

Activities

  • Jan 30, 2012 Released RAFT Ain't For Templating 1.0.0, simple templating for PHP.
  • Jan 28, 2012 Introducing MoodJam Achievements
  • Jan 27, 2012 Created a blog section.
  • Jan 22, 2012 Released YAWL Ain't Web Logs 0.2.0, a simple blogging platform in PHP.
  • Jan 18, 2012 Created SOPAstrikify.js in protest of SOPA.
  • Jan 16, 2012 Released LayerCake 0.2.0, a quick-to-use calendar/date picker.
  • Jan 14, 2012 Designed a template for Ubicomp 2012.
  • Jan 1, 2012 Released new version of MoodJam. Happy 2012!
  • Dec 26, 2011 Seattle ✈ Pittsburgh
  • Dec 17, 2011 Mountain View ✈ Seattle to visit family :)
  • Dec 15, 2011 Pittsburgh ✈ Mountain View for Google Interview
  • Dec 8-9, 2011 Two days at the CHI Program Committee Meeting
  • Dec 7, 2011 Gave a talk about Personal Informatics at IBM Cambridge.
  • Dec 6, 2011 Attended the Boston Quantified Meetup @ WorkBar.
  • Dec 6, 2011 Pittsburgh ✈ Boston for the CHI PC Meeting
  • Nov 30, 2011 Call for Participation for the CHI 2012 Workshop on Personal Informatics is now online.
  • Nov 28, 2011 Amsterdam ✈ Pittsburgh
  • Nov 27, 2011 Presented 3 Design Considerations for Personal Informatics Tools.
  • Nov 26, 2011 Organized discussion on Integrating Visualizations with Innertube.
  • Nov 26, 2011 Released developer preview of Innertube.
  • Nov 25, 2011 Pittsburgh ✈ Amsterdam for the Quantified Self Europe 2011.
  • Nov 18, 2011 Started a postdoc with Dan Siewiorek.
  • Nov 18, 2011 Visited Proteus Biomedical.
  • Nov 17, 2011 In Berkeley for Gary's 30th birthday.
  • Nov 11, 2011 Finished meta-reviews for CHI.
  • Nov 7, 2011 Redesigned home page again to incorporate more colors.
  • Nov 1, 2011 Started meta-reviews for CHI.
  • Oct 31, 2011 CHI 2012 workshop on personal informatics was accepted.
  • Oct 31, 2011 Wrote first startup funding application to AlphaLab.
  • Oct 28-29, 2011 Made Freddie Mercury costume for Halloween cruise and Evaline.
  • Oct 25, 2011 Designed a new template for home page.
  • Oct 18, 2011 Held 2nd Pittsburgh Quantified Self Meetup.
  • Oct 15, 2011 Madison, WI ✈ Pittsburgh
  • Oct 13, 2011 Job talk at U of Wisconsin Madison.
  • Oct 12, 2011 Phoenix ✈ Madison, WI
  • Oct 10, 2011 First outdoor rock climbing. Woohoo!
  • Oct 9, 2011 Hiked Brown's Peak, Arizona.
  • Oct 5, 2011 Presented at Arizona State University.
  • Oct 4, 2011 Hiked Picacho Peak, Arizona.
  • Oct 1, 2011 Shanghai ✈ Phoenix. Visiting Erin and Ruthie.
  • Sep 29, 2011 Dissertation revisions submitted and Ph.D. certified.
  • Sep 28, 2011 Reached Huangshan Mountain's highest peak.
  • Sep 24, 2011 Beijing ✈ Shanghai. Traveling with Karen and Tawanna.
  • Sep 16, 2011 Pittsburgh ✈ Beijing
  • Aug 19, 2011 Defended my thesis.
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