Reflecting on health: a system for students to monitor diet and exercise
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MAHI: investigation of social scaffolding for reflective thinking in diabetes management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
EatWell: sharing nutrition-related memories in a low-income community
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Supporting family engagement in weight management
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Toward technologies that support family reflections on health
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Mobile Diary for Wellness Management—Results on Usage and Usability in Two User Studies
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
A contextualised curriculum for HCI
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Our research aims at helping families work together to achieve a healthier lifestyle, increasing their awareness of what they currently do and what they could do differently. We built a prototype collaborative platform for families to see if we could facilitate health discussions and encourage supportive behaviour within the family. This paper presents a trial we conducted online where we investigated what would be more promising: an individual profile, space and goal, for each individual in a family, or a family profile, space and goal. We show that both conditions have their strengths and weaknesses: whereas a specific goal at the individual level tends to lead to better task performance, a shared goal seemed to promote support within the family. Similarly, whereas individual spaces seemed to encourage more personal reflections, the shared space attracted more non-task related visits to the portal by family members.