Collaborative Tracking

Collaborative tracking is the practice of multiple people - typically a person with a health condition and their caregivers or allies - contributing to and reviewing shared health or behaviour data. It extends personal informatics from individual self-knowledge into interdependent care, and is common in diabetes management, parent-child health tracking, and couples' chronic-illness support. Accessibility-focused design for collaborative tracking must handle visibility controls (who sees what, when), data ownership, and the emotional labour of being tracked, since continuous transparency can induce hypervigilance or resistance behaviours like under-reporting.