SHB: Type I (EXP): Health Sense: Motivating Health Awareness in Children through Wearable Computing

SHB：I 型（EXP）：健康意识：通过可穿戴计算激发儿童的健康意识

• 批准号: 1439241
• 负责人: Katie Siek
• 金额: $ 51.67万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHB; Type; EXP; Health; Sense

The obesity epidemic among children has become a widespread problem in the United States. This trend is disturbing because overweight children tend to become overweight or obese adults with potentially life threatening chronic conditions. By focusing on children?s physical activity, we can shift the problem from treatment to prevention. There are numerous academic and commercial applications that aim to help individuals monitor and make proactive decisions about their physical activity; however they do not integrate well into an individual's daily life because they may require manual activity input, asynchronous visualization, and non-instinctive awareness of the application for actionable feedback. Thus, while existing devices have had some success in monitoring, inferring, and presenting activity, they do not always convey the value of physical activity in an intuitive visual abstraction. The feedback design is important in designing wearable technology for children because children are less likely to connect quantifiable measurements - in this case with their health.In response to these issues, we design innovative wearable computing components that empower children to craft their own intuitive abstractions of wellness data for physical activity promotion. This project builds on existing socio-technical research in health informatics by extending the nascent research subarea, wellness informatics, that studies how technology can be utilized to empower lay populations to stay well and adopt preventative health behaviors. The research objectives of this project are to: (1) Design plug-and-play wellness monitoring Health Sense systems; (2) Design a graphical programming environment to control the actions of the Health Sense systems; and (3) Understand how children use Health Sense systems. The research methodology is inspired by participatory design activities including participant observations, design workshops, and iterative evaluation of prototypes. Overall, the proposed system provides innovations in computing by creating new, wearable computing prototypes and paradigms of interaction. The broader impacts of Health Sense include undergraduate and graduate research assistant interdisciplinary research training. The research team is introducing low socioeconomic status K-12 students to computing, electronics, and health through Health Sense workshops. Research methodology and results is being integrated into the PIs' established 1st year general engineering projects courses. In addition, the PIs and their students are helping increase the pipeline of future scholars by developing teaching and outreach materials that are being distributed through the project website. The PIs and their students are disseminating their research by publishing results in health informatics and traditional computing venues. Finally, the system also helps fulfill Healthy People 2020 Educational and Community-Based Programs goals.

在美国，儿童肥胖流行已成为一个普遍的问题。这种趋势令人不安，因为超重的儿童倾向于变得超重或肥胖的成年人，可能会威胁生命的慢性病。 通过关注儿童的体育锻炼，我们可以将问题从治疗转变为预防。 有许多学术和商业应用，旨在帮助个人监视和主动就其体育活动做出主动决定；但是，它们不能很好地整合到个人的日常生活中，因为它们可能需要手动活动输入，异步可视化以及对应用程序可行反馈的应用的不可知的意识。因此，尽管现有设备在监视，推断和展示活动方面取得了一些成功，但它们并不总是传达直观视觉抽象中体育活动的价值。反馈设计对于针对儿童设计可穿戴技术很重要，因为儿童不太可能连接可量化的测量值 - 在这种情况下，他们的健康状况。在对这些问题的回应中，我们设计了创新的可穿戴计算机组件，这些计算组件可以使儿童能够为促进体育锻炼的健康数据制作自己的直觉抽象。 该项目建立在健康信息学上现有的社会技术研究的基础上，它扩展了新生的研究子区域，健康信息学，即研究如何利用技术来赋予外行人群以保持良好状态并采用预防性健康行为。该项目的研究目标是：（1）设计插件的健康监测健康感系统； （2）设计一个图形编程环境，以控制健康感系统的动作； （3）了解儿童如何使用健康感系统。研究方法的灵感来自参与式设计活动，包括参与者观察，设计研讨会和原型的迭代评估。总体而言，提出的系统通过创建新的，可穿戴的计算原型和交互范式来提供计算方面的创新。健康意识的更广泛影响包括本科和研究生研究助理跨学科研究培训。研究团队通过健康感官讲习班将低社会经济状况K-12学生引入计算，电子和健康。研究方法和结果正在整合到PIS成立的一年级通用工程项目课程中。 此外，PIS及其学生正在通过开发通过项目网站分发的教学和外展材料来帮助增加未来学者的渠道。 PIS及其学生正在通过发布健康信息学和传统计算场所的结果来传播他们的研究。最后，该系统还有助于实现2020年健康的教育和基于社区的计划目标。