CAREER: HCC: Advancing Personal Wellbeing through Everyday Meaningful Self-Tracking Experiences

职业：HCC：通过日常有意义的自我跟踪体验促进个人健康

• 批准号: 2237389
• 负责人: Daniel Epstein
• 金额: $ 61.68万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2237389&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; HCC; Advancing; Personal; Wellbeing

Self-tracking technologies like digital pedometers, food journaling apps, and mood-monitoring apps make up a nearly $20 billion industry in the U.S., with over 40% of U.S. adults having used one and half of primary care providers recommending one. However, people often fail to benefit from the health and wellbeing data collected from these technologies. One reason is that people find the design of these technologies ignores the realities of their everyday lives, in terms of what they can realistically undertake and what resources they have available to them. To help researchers and industry better align the design of self-tracking technology with people's realities, this project will establish deeper understanding of how self-tracking technology can support more meaningful engagement to help people improve their wellbeing.Grounded in theories of meaningfulness, the research team will design, create, and deploy three novel applications that address three aspects of meaningfulness that are understudied in personal informatics: connectedness, resonance, and significance. The first is a webapp for creating customizable representations of physical activity data on watch faces, to promote deeper personal connection between people's values, interests, and their data. The research team will further utilize the webapp in a high school summer program for historically underrepresented groups in computing to introduce students to computing, design, and self-tracking around wellbeing. The second is a communal digital display surfacing shared eating experiences in families, to enhance bonding and resonance among family members. The third involves annotation tools for validated scales used in mental health treatment, to allow people to communicate the significance of the data they collect as part of their care. Informed by people's lived experiences with these approaches, the research team will synthesize the results of these studies to create an empirically validated framework describing how to design meaningful self-tracking interactions.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.

数字计步器、饮食日记应用程序和情绪监测应用程序等自我跟踪技术在美国构成了一个价值近 200 亿美元的产业，超过 40% 的美国成年人使用过一半半的初级保健提供者推荐的产品。然而，人们往往无法从这些技术收集的健康和福祉数据中受益。原因之一是人们发现这些技术的设计忽略了他们日常生活的现实，即他们可以实际承担什么以及他们可以使用哪些资源。为了帮助研究人员和业界更好地将自我跟踪技术的设计与人们的现实结合起来，该项目将更深入地了解自我跟踪技术如何支持更有意义的参与，以帮助人们改善福祉。以意义理论为基础，研究团队将设计、创建和部署三个新颖的应用程序，以解决个人信息学中正在研究的意义的三个方面：连通性、共鸣和意义。第一个是一个网络应用程序，用于在表盘上创建可定制的身体活动数据表示，以促进人们的价值观、兴趣及其数据之间更深层次的个人联系。研究团队将在高中暑期项目中进一步利用该网络应用程序，为计算机领域历来代表性不足的群体提供帮助，向学生介绍计算、设计和围绕健康进行自我跟踪。第二个是公共数字显示屏，展示家庭共享的饮食体验，以增强家庭成员之间的联系和共鸣。第三个涉及心理健康治疗中使用的经过验证的量表注释工具，使人们能够传达他们在护理过程中收集的数据的重要性。根据人们使用这些方法的生活经验，研究团队将综合这些研究结果，创建一个经过实证验证的框架，描述如何设计有意义的自我跟踪交互。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。