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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

C. Löw, C. Gad-El-Hak, R. Ganhör, H. Tellioglu:
"ZENse - Supporting Everyday Emotional Reflection";
Talk: INTERACT 2015, Bamberg, Germany; 2015-09-14 - 2015-09-18; in: "14.09.2015", INTERACT 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS) (2015), ISBN: 978-3-319-22722-1; 448 - 455.



English abstract:
Healthcare benefited greatly from the trend of self-quantification. However, emotional states and psychological health are more elusive and defy description by simple sensor data. In this paper we show how a user oriented design process resulted in ZENse, a wearable prototype for digitally supporting ideas of Positive Psychology, a psychological approach to help patients with mental disorders. A conducted user study shows promising results on the idea and the design. Despite it being only a small explorative study with healthy participants, we found that the prototype triggers situations and interactions that are known to have a beneficial effect on mental well-being.

German abstract:
Healthcare benefited greatly from the trend of self-quantification. However, emotional states and psychological health are more elusive and defy description by simple sensor data. In this paper we show how a user oriented design process resulted in ZENse, a wearable prototype for digitally supporting ideas of Positive Psychology, a psychological approach to help patients with mental disorders. A conducted user study shows promising results on the idea and the design. Despite it being only a small explorative study with healthy participants, we found that the prototype triggers situations and interactions that are known to have a beneficial effect on mental well-being.

Keywords:
Quantified-self, Wearable, Emotion, Tracking, Self-reflection


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8


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