CAREER: Healthy Families: Technology to Support the Health and Wellness of Young Children

这个项目的重点是设计、开发和评估计算机干预措施的有效性，以帮助父母确保他们孩子的健康发展。随着幼儿的快速发展和学习将影响他们一生的技能，定期去看儿科医生和详细的记录可以确保儿童的进步，并能够识别发育迟缓或残疾的早期预警迹象。PI将使用全面的以人为中心的方法来探索和了解技术支持幼儿健康的紧张和机会，同时让不同和服务不足人群的父母和专业人员参与进来。PI将寻求创造可行和有效的技术，以激励和鼓励父母保存记录。将采用定性和定量研究方法，与西雅图儿童健康和西雅图金县公共卫生合作，进行为期18个月的长期研究，以验证技术设计。研究成果将包括：发现支持幼儿健康的技术的设计要求，特别是针对来自不同人口和服务不足的家庭；根据设计要求推出一套由三项新技术组成的新技术，这些技术利用移动和社会计算技术帮助幼儿的父母跟踪其子女的健康信息并了解儿童的健康情况；验证计算机技术是支持家长保存记录的可行手段，增加家长对子女发展进展的了解和信心，以及改善家长与儿科医生的沟通。更广泛的影响：这项研究涉及进行形成性研究，以加深我们对如何为服务不足的人群设计卫生技术的知识，从而将焦虑降至最低，并支持医患关系。因此，该项目将针对一个主要的公共卫生目标，即更密切地跟踪幼儿的健康和发展，特别是来自低收入背景和发育迟缓的幼儿。这些发现将对儿童早期发展以外的领域产生影响。项目成果将扩大我们关于如何根据用户的资金和时间限制开发和调整移动和社交计算应用程序的知识。最后，这项工作将有助于改进评估旨在改变行为和长期结果的技术应用程序的技术，这反过来将在总体上推动人机交互领域的发展。

This project focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of the effectiveness of computing interventions to assist parents in ensuring the healthy development of their child. As young children undergo rapid development and learn skills that will influence their entire lives, regular visits to a pediatrician and detailed record-keeping can ensure that children are progressing and can identify early warning signs of developmental delay or disability. The PI will use a comprehensive human-centered approach to explore and understand the tensions and opportunities for technology to support the health of young children while involving parents and professionals across diverse and underserved populations. The PI will seek to create feasible and effective technologies that motivate and encourage record-keeping by parents. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods will be employed to validate technology designs using a long-term study lasting 18 months in collaboration with Seattle Children's Health and Seattle King-County Public Health. Research outcomes will include: Discovery of design requirements for technologies to support the health of young children, especially for families from diverse and underserved populations; A suite of three new technologies based on the design requirements that leverage mobile and social computing technologies for assisting parents of young children with tracking their child's health information and learning about children's health; Validation of computing technology as a viable means of supporting parent record-keeping, of increasing parent knowledge and confidence in their child's developmental progress, and improving parent-pediatrician communication. Broader Impacts: This research involves conducting formative studies that further our knowledge of how health technology can be designed for underserved populations so as to minimize anxiety and support the doctor-patient relationship. Thus, the project will address a major public health goal of more closely tracking the health and development of young children, especially those from lower income backgrounds and those with developmental delay. The findings will have implications for domains beyond early childhood development. Project outcomes will expand our knowledge about how mobile and social computing applications can be developed and adapted based on the financial and time constraints of the users. Finally, this work will help refine techniques for evaluating technology applications designed for behavior change and long term outcomes, which in turn will advance the field of Human-Computer Interaction in general.