My name is Ian Li and I'm the creator of Owlstown. When I was in grad school, I maintained my own academic website and it was time-consuming. I had to keep a server running, stay up-to-date on web technologies, and write the code for the website. This was on top of my grueling research work. My experience inspired me to create Owlstown, an online platform that helps academics and researchers make better academic websites without the time-consuming hassle.
I got my PhD at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My research was focused on personal informatics, tools that help people understand their own behavior. My dissertation explored how contextual information can improve self-knowledge in personal informatics systems. My advisors were Anind Dey and Jodi Forlizzi.

Publications


Using context to reveal factors that affect physical activity


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, vol. 19(1), 2012 Mar, pp. 1-21


Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

Ubicomp 2011, 2011, pp. 405-414


A stage-based model of personal informatics systems


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

CHI 2010, 2010, pp. 557-566


Here's what I did: sharing and reusing web activity with ActionShot


Ian Li, Jeffrey Nichols, Tessa Lau, Clemens Drews, Allen Cypher

CHI 2010, 2010, pp. 723-732


Grafitter: leveraging social media for self reflection


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

ACM Crossroads Student Magazine, vol. 16(2), 2009 Oct 30, pp. 12-13


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Projects


Personal Informatics & Context: Using Context to Reveal Factors that Affect Behavior


Explores the use of contextual information in personal informatics systems to help users understand the factors that affect their behavior.


Model of Personal Informatics Systems


A model that serves as a common framework for describing, comparing, and evaluating personal informatics systems.


IMPACT


IMPACT, Improving and Motivating Physical Activity using ContexT, is a system that monitors and informs users about their physical activity and the context in which the activities happen. The system shows real-time information on a phone interface and ...

Using context to reveal factors that affect physical activity


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, vol. 19(1), 2012 Mar, pp. 1-21


Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

Ubicomp 2011, 2011, pp. 405-414


A stage-based model of personal informatics systems


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

CHI 2010, 2010, pp. 557-566


Here's what I did: sharing and reusing web activity with ActionShot


Ian Li, Jeffrey Nichols, Tessa Lau, Clemens Drews, Allen Cypher

CHI 2010, 2010, pp. 723-732


Grafitter: leveraging social media for self reflection


Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

ACM Crossroads Student Magazine, vol. 16(2), 2009 Oct 30, pp. 12-13


Beyond Counting Steps: Using Context to Improve Monitoring of Physical Activity


Ian Li

Ubicomp 2009 Doctoral Colloquium, Orlando, FL, 2008 Nov


Using visualizations to increase compliance in experience sampling


Gary Hsieh, Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi, Scott E. Hudson

ubicomp, Ubiquitous Computing, 2008 Aug 20, pp. 164-167


My agent as myself or another: effects on credibility and listening to advice


Ian Li, Jodi Forlizzi, Anind K. Dey, Sara B. Kiesler

dppi, Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, 2007 Jul 21, pp. 194-208


Ambient Interfaces that Motivate Changes in Human Behavior.


Jodi Forlizzi, Ian Li, Anind K. Dey

Ambient Information Systems, 2006 Nov 31


a CAPpella: programming by demonstration of context-aware applications


Anind K. Dey, Raffay Hamid, Chris Beckmann, Ian Li, Daniel Hsu

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004 Mar 24, pp. 33-40

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Ian Li, PhD

Creator of Owlstown



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