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The Personal Science Wiki collects information related to "personal science", including: ''Quantified Self'' topics and self research.  

The Personal Science Wiki hosts knowledge about "personal science", where individuals use empirical methods to ask and answer questions about their own lives. Personal science practices overlap with various related communities (e.g. Quantified Self and patient-led research) and individual goals are diverse (e.g. productivity and wellness, mental health, and management of chronic health conditions).

 

The scope of this wiki encompasses both general knowledge (tools and topics) as well as individual efforts (people and projects). As such, "original research" that shares first-person personal science efforts and observations is explicitly allowed.

== What is Personal Science? ==

== What is Personal Science? ==

See [[PersonalScienceWiki:What is Personal Science?|What is Personal Science?]]

Personal science is research conducted from a first person perspective, where the researcher is also the "subject" of research. Many projects are "solo", but personal science can occur at individual and collective scales ("I" or "we"). What is key is that the conceptualization and conduct of projects comes from the individuals that are studied: the involvement of institutional support and professional scientists (e.g. academics) is limited and often entirely absent.

 

As such, "personal science" is a form of "citizen science" that can occur almost entirely outside traditional research institutions. At the same time, many practitioners of personal science come from academia and adjacent fields (research industry, technology, medicine), re-using skills in research and technology to apply them to ask personally relevant questions.

== What is the motivation behind this wiki? ==

== What is the motivation behind this wiki? ==

A big barrier that personal scientists encounter is the need to “reinvent the wheel” when developing their own research projects as there is no common resource of knowledge<ref>[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662519888757 Heyen (2019). From self-tracking to self-expertise: The production of self-related knowledge by doing personal science]</ref>. We co-developed this semantic wiki for and with the personal science community to to provide an infrastructure and the seed for this kind of interconnected knowledge resource.

A big barrier that personal scientists encounter is the need to “reinvent the wheel” when developing their own research projects as there is no common resource of knowledge<ref>[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662519888757 Heyen (2019). From self-tracking to self-expertise: The production of self-related knowledge by doing personal science]</ref>. We co-developed this semantic wiki for and with the personal science community to to provide an infrastructure and the seed for this kind of interconnected knowledge resource.