Sensemaking in Intelligent Health Data Analytics

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

et al. 2020

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Biosensing technologies are increasingly available as offthe-shelf products, yet for many designers, artists and nonengineers, these technologies remain difficult to design with. Through a soma design stance, we devised a novel approach for exploring qualities in biodata. Our explorative process culminated in the design of three artefacts, coupling biosignals to tangible actuation formats. By making biodata perceivable as sound, in tangible form or directly on the skin, it became possible to link qualities of the measurements to our own somatics-our felt experience of our bodily bioprocessesas they dynamically unfold, spurring somatically-grounded design discoveries of novel possible interactions. We show that making biodata attainable for a felt experience-or as we frame it: turning biodata into somadata-enables not only first-person encounters, but also supports collaborative design processes as the somadata can be shared and experienced dynamically, right at the moment when we explore design ideas.

Section: Sensemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Biodata to Somadata

Alfaras

Tsaknaki

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

et al. 2020

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“…This is visible by the predominance of the categories diagnosis and self-tracking, a total of 43.8% of the papers. These types of systems have been proposed as having the potential to change how health care is to be provided, not only by providing immediate support to a sufferer, through improving adherence to a treatment or predicting episodes, as we have seen in the reviewed papers, but also by aggregating different health data streams across patients (big data) and helping see populationwide trends, providing the possibility of advancing theoretical frameworks for mental health and providing evidence for effectiveness of different therapies by making use of the multivariate nature of available data from different sufferers [24,32,158]. However, we would also like to point out interesting and under-represented research directions in the analyzed corpus.…”

Section: Implications and Future Directions For Research And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

HCI and Affective Health

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Janson

Karpashevich

et al. 2019

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In the last decade, the number of articles on HCI and health has increased dramatically. We extracted 139 papers on depression, anxiety and bipolar health issues from 10 years of SIGCHI conference proceedings. 72 of these were published in the last two years. A systematic analysis of this growing body of literature revealed that most innovation happens in automated diagnosis, and self-tracking, although there are innovative ideas in tangible interfaces. We noted an overemphasis on data production without consideration of how it leads to fruitful interventions. Moreover, we see a need to promote ethical practices for involvement of people living with affective disorders. Finally, although only 16 studies evaluate technologies in a clinical context, several forms of support and intervention illustrate how rich insights are gained from evaluations with real patients. Our findings highlight potential for growth in the design space of affective health technologies.

“…Users also need to set goals-or create "images" of where they are heading and how to integrate these processes with their everyday life-that could be done through sharing practices and ideas in on-line forums. The study by Boman and Sanches [6] shows how Fitbit users make sense of their tracked step data by sharing practices in the online forums, not only by helping each other making sense of data, but also by finding alternative practices using the step counter (e.g., in a bicycle), or together developing solutions for when the device is found to be incorrectly making calculations. Similar to how many know that they are supposed to walk 10,000 steps per day and that step counters can help keep track, normative statements about stress or performance around skin conductance data might have to be communicated.…”

Section: Proto-practices Around Skin Conductancementioning

confidence: 99%

Ambiguity as a Resource to Inform Proto-Practices

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

Höök

Sas

et al. 2019

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Skin conductance is an interesting measure of arousal level, largely unfamiliar to most end-users. We designed a mobile application mirroring end-users' skin conductance in evocative visualizations, purposefully made ambiguous to invite rich interpretations. Twenty-three participants used the system for a month. Through the lens of a practice-based analysis of weekly interviews and the logged data, several quite different-sometimes even mutually exclusive-interpretations or proto-practices arose: as stress management; sports performance; emotion tracking; general life logging; personality representation; or behavior change practices. This suggests the value of a purposefully open initial design to allow for the emergence of broader proto-practices to be followed by a second step of tailored design for each identified goal to facilitate the transition from proto-practice to practice. We contribute to the HCI discourse on ambiguity in design, arguing for balancing openness and ambiguity with scaffolding to better support the emergence of practices around biodata. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction design;