Collaborative Research: EAGER: Systems for Assisting in Emotion Regulation in the Wild

情绪调节是职场和日常生活中的一项基本技能。未能管理好情绪的类型、强度和持续时间不仅会导致误解，还会对人、关系和组织造成损害。反复的ER故障会导致精神健康障碍的发展，如焦虑或抑郁。急诊室技能可以通过临床医生指导的培训成功传授，但这是一个持续的、劳动密集型的过程，目前成本高昂，不易扩展。这个项目遵循另一个方向：它研究了基于可穿戴支付的系统设计中的基本问题，这些系统使用技术在急诊室中的人需要的时候和地点(在野外)帮助他。使用技术来帮助人们在野外调节他们的情绪是一个复杂的多学科问题：它需要在心理学方面的理解(为了理解情绪调节)，人机交互，以及人类参与的系统。我们在这个迫切的项目中的首要目标是为这样的理解建立一个基础，并将其应用到原型负担和系统中。我们将使用多学科方法。特别是，我们将：(1)制定基于触觉呼吸起搏的野外支持ER的负担的设计指南。我们将与临床ER从业者协商制定这些指南，并将它们应用于现有的ER系统，例如Apple Watch、Spire和EmotionCheck上的呼吸应用程序。(2)探索使用触觉让野外使用者参与已知可在实验室环境中产生有效ER的呼吸干预。(3)研究基于触觉的生物反馈干预在野外呼吸内质网中的应用。(4)探讨将其他人(例如，临床医生、家庭成员、同事)纳入急诊室援助过程的系统后果。该项目将促进对在野外提供ER支持的系统开发的了解和理解，这些系统对工作场所的生产力具有很大的潜在好处，并改善个人的心理健康。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Emotion regulation (ER) is an essential skill in the workplace and everyday life. Failure to manage the type, intensity, and duration of emotions can result in not just misunderstandings, but also damage to people, relationships, and organizations. Repeated ER failures can lead to the development of mental health disorders such as anxiety or depression. ER skills can be successfully taught with clinician-led training, but this is an ongoing, labor-intensive process that is currently expensive and not easily scaled. This project follows another direction: it examines foundational issues in the design of systems, based around a wearable affordance, that use technology to assist a person in ER when and where the person needs it (in the wild).Using technology to assist people in regulating their emotions in the wild is a complex and multidisciplinary problem: it requires understanding in psychology (for understanding of emotion regulation), human computer interaction, and systems with humans in the loop. Our overarching goal in this EAGER project is to build a basis for such an understanding and applying it to a prototype affordance and system. We will use a multidisciplinary approach. In particular, we will: (1) Develop design guidelines for affordances supporting ER in the wild that are based on haptic breath pacing. We will develop these guidelines in consultation with clinical ER practitioners, and will apply them to existing ER systems, such as the Breathe app on the Apple Watch, Spire, and EmotionCheck. (2) Explore the use of haptics for involving in-the-wild users in a breathing intervention known to result in effective ER in laboratory settings. (3) Study the utility of haptic-based biofeedback interventions in breath-based ER in the wild. (4) Explore systems consequences of including others (for example, clinicians, family members, coworkers) in the process of assisting ER. This project will advance knowledge and understanding of the development of systems that provide ER support in the wild, with strong potential benefit for workplace productivity, as well as improved individual mental health.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.