AUTOMATED LIFELOGGING TO IDENTIFY, MONITOR, AND HELP ACHIEVE USER GOALS

摘要

A user's activities are automatically logged as they are passively sensed by the user's mobile devices. Patterns of activities or changes in those patterns can be used to identify goals, and users can tell the logging system about other goals directly. The goals may be complex goals having many activities that may contribute to accomplishing the goal. Examples of complex goals include improving health, reducing carbon footprint, and saving money. Progress is monitored toward the user's goal over time. Suggestions are made to the user for how to make progress toward identified goals at times in the user's schedule where a degree of flexibility is available. The suggestions may be based on activities that worked for other people with similar profiles to the user (e.g., in terms of goal, schedule, characteristics, likes/dislikes, stage of change, motivation level, etc.).

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for suggesting opportunities to meet user goals, the method comprising:
identifying a user goal, the goal comprising a pattern of behavior that the user wants to adopt, the pattern of behavior comprising an activity to continue at a target frequency for at least a period of time, the activity comprising an activity observable by context collectors of a mobile device or inferable from information gathered by context collectors of the mobile device; monitoring progress towards the goal by assessing the user's behavior against the target frequency; and suggesting opportunities to meet the goal by prompting the user to adopt behavior that advances the goal.