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，以帮助父母确保子女的健康发展。由于幼儿经历快速发育并学习将影响其一生的技能，定期去看儿科医生并详细记录可以确保儿童在进步，并可以识别发育迟缓或残疾的早期预警信号。该项目将采用全面的以人为本的方法，探索和了解技术在支持幼儿健康方面的紧张关系和机遇，同时让来自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，以激励和鼓励家长保存记录。将采用定性和定量研究方法，与西雅图儿童健康中心和西雅图金县公共卫生中心合作进行为期18个月的长期研究，以验证技术设计。研究成果将包括：发现技术的设计要求，以支持幼儿健康，特别是来自不同和服务不足人口的家庭；基于设计要求的一套三种新技术，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状况；验证计算机技术作为一种支持家长记录的可行手段，增加家长对孩子发育过程的了解和信心，并改善家长与儿科医生的沟通。更广泛的影响：本研究涉及开展形成性研究，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，该项目将实现一项重要的公共卫生目标，即更密切地跟踪幼儿，特别是低收入背景儿童和发育迟缓儿童的健康和发育情况。这些发现将对儿童早期发展以外的领域产生影响。项目成果将扩展我们关于如何根据用户的财务和时间限制开发和调整移动和社会计算应用程序的知识。最后，这项工作将有助于改进评估为行为改变和长期结果而设计的技术应用的技术，这反过来又将在总体上推进人机交互领域。

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.