SHB: Small: Social Tools for Everyday Adolescent Health

SHB：小型：青少年日常健康的社交工具

• 批准号: 1116801
• 负责人: Elizabeth Mynatt
• 金额: $ 48.57万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1116801&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHB; Small; Social; Tools; Everyday

The increasing numbers of overweight and obese adolescents is a key health challenge in 21st centuryAmerica. Since the 1980s, rates of overweight adolescents have doubled, and rates of obese adolescentshave tripled; adolescent obesity is now the single biggest predictor of adult obesity. At the same time,adolescents are spending increasing portions of their lives interacting with video games and socialnetwork sites, incorporating computing into their leisure and social communication practices on a largescale. This project uses computing technology to address adolescent obesity through thedevelopment and study of social tools to promote sustained everyday healthy practices by adolescents.The research demonstrates how social computingcan enable offline healthy behaviors, using peers as motivators in contrast to "top-down"approaches. The work is in partnership with DeKalb County Schools, Georgia'smost urban school district and a leading awardee of research-focused programs.Research in this project is exploring the effects of various social computingtools and features on a set of validated outcome measures grounded in our previous work and bestpractices. During the school year the project deploys a series of pedometer-based social healthapplications and games for 8th graders in two middle schools. In the summers between deployment cycles, a small subset of participants takes part in design sessions for the next school year.Research focuses on three main topics:1. The role of online social identity presentation in intrinsic motivation.2. The ability of social computing interventions to facilitate offline rituals and habits.3. The impact of collective experiences.This research will contribute to our understanding of the connections between socialmedia activity and offline behavior. It will also demonstrate improvements in health behaviors and attitudes for adolescents. Moreover by deepening the connection between theDekalb School System in Atlanta and Georgia Tech, the project enriches the educational environmentof these middle school students.

青少年超重和肥胖人数的增加是21世纪美国面临的一个主要健康挑战。自20世纪80年代以来，超重青少年的比例翻了一番，肥胖青少年的比例翻了三倍;青少年肥胖现在是成人肥胖的最大预测因素。与此同时，青少年正在花费越来越多的时间与视频游戏和社交网站互动，将计算大规模地纳入他们的休闲和社交交流实践中。该项目使用计算技术，通过开发和研究社交工具来解决青少年肥胖问题，以促进青少年持续的日常健康行为。该研究展示了社交计算如何实现离线健康行为，与“自上而下“的方法相比，使用同伴作为激励因素。这项工作是与迪卡尔布县学校合作，迪卡尔布县学校是格鲁吉亚最城市化的学区，也是以研究为重点的项目的主要获奖者。该项目的研究是探索各种社会计算工具和功能对一组基于我们以前的工作和最佳实践的有效结果测量的影响。在学年期间，该项目为两所中学的八年级学生部署了一系列基于计步器的社会健康应用程序和游戏。在部署周期之间的夏天，一小部分参与者参加下一学年的设计课程。在线社会身份呈现在内在动机中的作用.社会计算干预促进离线仪式和习惯的能力。3.集体经历的影响。这项研究将有助于我们理解社交媒体活动和离线行为之间的联系。 它还将展示青少年健康行为和态度的改善。此外，通过加深亚特兰大Dekalb学校系统和格鲁吉亚理工学院之间的联系，该项目丰富了这些中学生的教育环境。