Stepping into the Era of Personal Big Data: a Roadmap to the Design of a Personal Digital Life Coach (Preprint)
UNSTRUCTURED The increased availability of devices that can record every aspect of a person’s life will allow the recording of a large amount of data that will be primarily useful for that particular user. These devices and their data will place each and every one of us at the doorstep of the era of personal big data. Using this data, in a not so distant future, we will be able to set a personal digital life coach, a digital platform that will act at an individual level, but also considering a global interaction, not only as a social networking tool, but as a platform that will profit from the individual experiences of its users. This position paper focuses on the identification of the milestones that will mark the creation of such a software and hardware platform, by exploring the opportunities and challenges that it poses to the computer science researchers, and how such a solution can be designed to be a user-adoptable lifestyles monitoring and training tool.