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

该项目的重点是设计，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的孩子的健康发展。 随着幼儿的快速发展和学习将影响其一生的技能，定期访问儿科医生和详细的记录保存可以确保儿童正在进步，并可以识别发育迟缓或残疾的早期预警信号。 PI将采用全面的以人为本的方法，探索和理解技术支持幼儿健康的紧张局势和机会，同时让不同和服务不足的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，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国王县公共卫生合作，使用持续18个月的长期研究来验证技术设计。 研究成果将包括：发现支持幼儿健康的技术的设计要求，特别是对来自不同和服务不足人口的家庭;基于设计要求的三项新技术，利用移动的和社会计算技术，帮助幼儿的父母跟踪其子女的健康信息和了解儿童的健康;验证计算技术作为一种可行的手段，支持父母记录保存，增加父母的知识和信心，在他们的孩子的发展进程，并改善父母儿科医生的沟通。 更广泛的影响：这项研究涉及进行形成性研究，进一步了解如何为服务不足的人群设计卫生技术，以最大限度地减少焦虑并支持医患关系。 因此，该项目将解决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，特别是那些来自低收入背景和发育迟缓的儿童。 这些发现将对幼儿发展以外的领域产生影响。 项目成果将扩大我们的知识，如何移动的和社会计算应用程序可以开发和适应的基础上的财务和时间限制的用户。 最后，这项工作将有助于完善技术，用于评估为行为改变和长期结果而设计的技术应用，这反过来又将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.