Intergenerational Sharing of Health Data among Family Members Project
During my 2nd year Ph.D. program, I collaborated as Research Assistant at Design Square Lab. My supervisor was assistant professor Dr. Eun Kyoung Choe: https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~choe/
Project Motivation:
An explosion of affordable commercial wearable sensing devices and mobile health applications has opened up new possibilities to practice self-tracking and enjoy its benefits. However, elders often do not engage with health tracking technologies because they do not see much benefits.
Leveraging the inherent reciprocal relationship among family members is one potential approach to promote the practice of health tracking.
Project Goal: to inform the design of technology that will support tracking and sharing of health and well-being information between elderly parents and their adult children.
What we've done:
Project Research Contribution:
We apply a proactive framing of family health as a collective and collaborative family project of mutual support: each member is helping one another to be more active and engaged for health.
Specifically, we want to utilize the inherent reciprocity of aiding among family members to shift what appears to be a burden into caring for one another.
Goal: examine how an intergenerational sharing of health data among family members mediated by technology could help family members be more aware of one anothers’ and their own health, and create a culture of health within family.
Role: Leading research assistant, Project management, Mentor undergraduate students
Methods: Interviews and Focus Groups, Qualitative data analysis, Scenarios, Prototyping
Research Timeline: 2 years
Project Outcome:
Project Outcome: The preliminary results were published in the Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Health, ACM.
Example of Focus Group Session - Young Adults
