Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for Emotional Self-Awareness

Morris, Margaret E.; Kathawala, Qusai; Leen, Todd K.; Gorenstein, Ethan E.; Guilak, Farzin; Labhard, Michael E.; Deleeuw, William C.

doi:10.2196/jmir.1371

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“…Knowing the affective state, a mobile application can potentially provide an instant and personal intervention along with therapies to improve the mental and physical health of people individually or as part of a community. For this purpose, Morris et al [60] present a mobile phone application to provide emotional self-awareness and therapies for cardiovascular disease. The application provides mood reporting and mobile therapies.…”

Section: Behavior Change Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotions in context: examining pervasive affective sensing systems, applications, and analyses

Kanjo

Al-Husain

Chamberlain

2015

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Pervasive sensing has opened up new opportunities for measuring our feelings and understanding our behavior by monitoring our affective states while mobile. This review paper surveys pervasive affect sensing by examining and considering three major elements of affective pervasive systems, namely ''sensing,'' ''analysis,'' and ''application.'' Sensing investigates the different sensing modalities that are used in existing real-time affective applications, analysis explores different approaches to emotion recognition and visualization based on different types of collected data, and application investigates different leading areas of affective applications. For each of the three aspects, the paper includes an extensive survey of the literature and finally outlines some of challenges and future research opportunities of affective sensing in the context of pervasive computing.

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Section: Behavior Change Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotions in context: examining pervasive affective sensing systems, applications, and analyses

Kanjo

Al-Husain

Chamberlain

2015

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…The few studies that have measured the impact of mobile devices on patients' quality of life or emotional disturbances for other chronic conditions have also reported mixed findings [64,65]. However, some studies have highlighted the potential of Smartphones to specifically increase patients' awareness of stress and emotional well-being, by recording moods during both health and illness, and deliver therapeutic interventions accordingly, which has led to reduced anxiety [65,66]. Mobile interventions provide an opportunity to increase patients' access to psychological support and deliver psychological interventions remotely at a time when patients are vulnerable.…”

Section: Findings In the Context Of Other Literaturementioning

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Use of Mobile Devices to Help Cancer Patients Meet Their Information Needs in Non-Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Richards¹,

Kinnersley²,

Brain³

et al. 2018

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The use of mobile devices to help patients with cancer to meet their information needs in non-inpatient settings: A systematic review IntroductionIt is estimated that one in two people in Great Britain will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime [1]. In 2014, 357,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the UK and the rate of incidence is increasing [2]. However, survival rates have doubled in the UK in the last 40 years and so, for many, cancer is a chronic condition with which they live for many years. Subsequently, there has been a shift from inpatient to outpatient and community cancer care, where patients are required to manage their condition at home, away from regular supervision by clinicians. This change in care requires patients to take a more active role in their treatment and survivorship. Patients are often faced with an uncertain future, unfamiliar tests and procedures, complex decisions about treatment options, treatment-related side-effects and lifestyle changes. In order to take a more active role in their care, and to cope with and manage these changes to daily life, patients require relevant information [3,4]. Research has established that patients have a wide range of information needs throughout their illness. Reviews of these studies suggest that patients generally want information on the extent of the disease, likelihood of cure and prognosis, available treatments, side-effects of treatment, self-care and return to normal life [5][6][7]. Other, less urgent, information needs include the impact of cancer and/or treatment on social activities, family and friends, mental wellbeing and sexual activity, and the risk of family and friends getting cancer [5,6]. There is evidence to suggest that information may help to reduce uncertainty, provide patients with a sense of control over their lives and support informed decision-making about treatment options [8,9]. While many people with cancer want as much information as possible about their condition [10], up to 93% of cancer patients across the US, Europe and the UK report having unmet information needs [11][12][13][14].The introduction of Smart technology has provided a new platform for delivering information-based interventions to patients. Approximately 93% of adults in the UK now personally own or use a mobile phone, of whom 71% specify that they own a Smartphone [15]. Similarly, over two thirds of adults in the UK now own or have access to a tablet computer [15]. Similar statistics of Smart device ownership and use have been reported in cancer patient populations [16,17]. Mobile devices therefore offer the potential for wide reach at the point of need for patients with cancer. Several existing systematic and scoping reviews have explored the general use of mobile devices for patients with cancer [18][19][20][21][22][23]. Findings from these reviews show that mobile interventions have been developed for a range of purposes, including the prevention, detection, and management of cancer; however, most interventions have been designed...

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“…For example, the application can present the user with an animated breathing exercise or ask a set of questions aimed at deescalating the user's intense anger. Results indicated that "Mood Map" helped their participants significantly reduce their anger, anxiety and sadness ratings in order to help themselves and empathize with others [9]. Schmitz et al (2013) designed a mobile learning game, "HeartRun", to train Basic Life Support (BLS) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).…”

Section: Mobile Applications Empathy and Healthmentioning

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Empathy and Mobile Applications

Papoutsi

Drigas

2017

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Abstract-Mobile devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants, have gained wide-spread popularity and are part of the everyday life of billions of people. Today's mobile phones represent a rich and powerful computing platform, given their sensing, processing, social and communication capabilities. Empathy is the ability to identify with and understand another person's situation and feelings. Our ability to empathize affects how well we communicate our thoughts and feelings with others, how well we understand others, and how comfortable people feel communicating with us. Mobile devices have made a huge step in trying to cultivate empathy to people and different social groups through interesting applications.Keywords-mobile devices, mobile applications, empathy, social media, games, health, emotions, emotional/affective agents, elderly people, social change IntroductionMobile devices are shaping-up users' lifestyles by adding new dimensions to the concept of socializing, performing actions and forming new habits [1]. As summarized by Fogg and Eckles (2007) [2], "mobile phones will soon become the most important platform for changing human behavior". Oinas-Kukkonen (2008) [3] argues that ubiquitous information systems are shaping up the creation and dissemination of information in new ways hence creating opportunities to foster healthier lifestyle.Furthermore mobile applications which is software, developed to run particularly on mobile phones (smartphones) and tablet computing devices, have the potential to bring a new perspective to people's life in many sectors. The diffusion of mobile phones into our lives is an evidence of their popularity. The ever-growing liking and adoption of mobile phones (e.g. Blackberry, iPhone, Google Android, Nokia Windows Phone) is reflective of their mammoth potential to promote health and general wellbeing of users. Portability, continuous data streaming, advanced computing power and easy dissemination of applications give them an edge over other forms of iniJIM

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Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for Emotional Self-Awareness

Cited by 334 publications

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Emotions in context: examining pervasive affective sensing systems, applications, and analyses

Emotions in context: examining pervasive affective sensing systems, applications, and analyses

Use of Mobile Devices to Help Cancer Patients Meet Their Information Needs in Non-Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Empathy and Mobile Applications

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