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Self-tracking, a phenomenon which dataify individuals’ daily activities and experiences, presents both opportunities and challenges to understand which factors and in what ways may influence individuals’ health status or well-being. Technology can enhance the era of personal happiness and increase social well-being. We hope to provide a design principle and operational design method to promote the well-being consideration of self-tracking products and technologies. In order to propose such principles and methods, it is necessary to first analyze the key factors of happiness in using self-tracking products. This article proposes “The Self-tracking Sustainability Formula”, which includes three elements as information, well-being drives, and material. Such a formula could possibly conceptually explain the components of a self-tracking product with sustainable potential. On this basis, this paper further explores how self-tracking products can positively influence issues such as environmental protection, personnel management, and friendly social relations from the dimensions of “information” and “well-being drives” to form more sustainable. Production and consumption ecology. This paper argues that, in order to enhance such a process of sustainable well-being, we as user researchers and product designers must design better ways of visualizing and interacting with “datafied well-being”. From the citations of dashboards, we draw upon both the principles of Somaesthetics to propose an “avatar” as the central interface component. An avatar, or a humanized animal image, is proposed to provide a more intuitive understanding of one’s physical, emotional, and social well-being, looking forward to helping self-tracking products become more sustainable by considering sustainable design principles and forms in the design process and motivating users to be more willing to accept sustainability Self-tracking products.

As people record, visualize, analyze, share, reflect on, etc. their everyday life using digital and network technologies, how can researchers and designers empower them to engage both the technologies and health about themselves? Though the Health Belief Model (HBM) has been used to explain and predict healthrelated behaviors, and the Technological Self-efficacy (TSE), and the PEN-3 cultural model has been used as constructs of technological and cultural self-efficacy, it remains a challenging task to tease out the impact of cultural and technological factors for people to improve their health conditions and well-being by taking direct and indirect actions. With the aim to develop a conceptual framework to overcome such a challenge, this study examined and selected a few constructs from the TSE and PEN-3 cultural models, respectively, and then use them to enrich the HBM so that the impact of cultural and technological factors can be better integrated and examined. The integrated model can be used as an analysis tool for both researchers and designers to identify first the relevant cultural and technological factors (using selected constructs), and then formulate and then test hypotheses regarding how these factors shape their health and technology actions (using the causal modeling of the enriched HBM).The integrated model proposed and illustrated in this study shows the ways in which both cultural and technological factors can be conceptualized to explain and predict health-related behaviors via perceived beliefs (often related to technology and health). For example, self-tracking visualization involves both cultural and technological factors that may facilitate or impede health-related behaviors.