Intergenerational Sharing of Health Data among Family Members Project

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.

Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3154895