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.

儿童肥胖症在美国已成为一个普遍的问题。这一趋势令人不安，因为超重儿童往往会成为超重或肥胖的成年人，患有可能危及生命的慢性疾病。 通过关注儿童？通过体育活动，我们可以将问题从治疗转向预防。 有许多学术和商业应用程序旨在帮助个人监控他们的身体活动并做出积极的决定;然而，它们不能很好地融入个人的日常生活，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的非本能意识，以获得可操作的反馈。因此，尽管现有设备在监测、推断和呈现活动方面取得了一些成功，但它们并不总是以直观的视觉抽象来传达身体活动的价值。反馈设计在为儿童设计可穿戴技术时非常重要，因为儿童不太可能将可量化的测量数据与他们的健康联系起来。针对这些问题，我们设计了创新的可穿戴计算组件，使儿童能够自己制作直观的健康数据抽象，以促进身体活动。 该项目以健康信息学现有的社会技术研究为基础，扩展了新兴的研究子领域“健康信息学”，该领域研究如何利用技术来帮助非专业人群保持健康并采取预防性健康行为。本计画的研究目标为：（1）设计即插即用的健康监测系统;（2）设计一个图形化的程序设计环境来控制健康监测系统的动作;（3）了解儿童如何使用健康监测系统。研究方法的灵感来自参与式设计活动，包括参与者的意见，设计研讨会，和原型的迭代评估。总的来说，所提出的系统提供了创新的计算，创造新的，可穿戴计算原型和互动的范例。健康意识的更广泛的影响包括本科生和研究生研究助理跨学科的研究培训。研究小组正在通过健康意识研讨会向低社会经济地位的K-12学生介绍计算，电子和健康。研究方法和结果正在纳入PI的既定第一年一般工程项目课程。 此外，PI和他们的学生正在通过开发教学和推广材料，通过项目网站分发，帮助增加未来学者的管道。PI和他们的学生正在通过在健康信息学和传统计算场所发布结果来传播他们的研究。最后，该系统还有助于实现健康人2020教育和社区为基础的计划的目标。