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Beyond self-monitoring
- Source :
- UbiComp, Grönvall, E & Verdezoto, N 2013, Beyond Self-Monitoring: Understanding Non-functional Aspects of Home-based Healthcare Technology . in F Mattern & S Santini (eds), Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp '13 . Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 587-596, The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, 08/09/2013 . https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493495
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- ACM, 2013.
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Abstract
- Monitoring of health parameters in non-clinical settings is one strategy to address the increasingly aging population and age-related disabilities and diseases. However, challenges exist when introducing self-monitoring activities in people's everyday life. An active lifestyle can challenge the appropriation of healthcare technologies and people with comorbidity may have diverse but co-existing monitoring needs. In this paper, we seek to understand home-based health monitoring practices to better design and integrate them into people's everyday life. We perform an analysis of socio-technical complexities in home-based healthcare technologies through three case studies of self-monitoring: 1) pre-eclampsia (i.e. pregnancy poisoning), 2) heart conditions, and 3) preventive care. Through the analysis seven themes emerged (people, resources, places, routines, knowledge, control and motivation) that can facilitate the understanding of home-based healthcare activities. We present three modes of self-monitoring use and provide a set of design recommendations for future Ubicomp designs of home-based healthcare technology. Monitoring of health parameters in non-clinical settings is one strategy to address the increasingly aging population and age-related disabilities and diseases. However, challenges exist when introducing self-monitoring activities in people’s everyday life. An active lifestyle can challenge the appropriation of healthcare technologies and people with comorbidity may have diverse but co-existing monitoring needs. In this paper, we seek to understand home-based health monitoring practices to better design and integrate them into people’s everyday life. We perform an analysis of socio-technical complexities in home-based healthcare technologies through three case studies of self-monitoring: 1) pre-eclampsia (i.e. pregnancy poisoning), 2) heart conditions, and 3) preventive care. Through the analysis seven themes emerged (people, resources, places, routines, knowledge, control and motivation) that can facilitate the understanding of home-based healthcare activities. We present three modes of self-monitoring use and provide a set of design recommendations for future Ubicomp designs of home-based healthcare technology.
- Subjects :
- Population ageing
Knowledge management
Ubiquitous computing
Personal health management
business.industry
Computer science
Internet privacy
Health technology
medicine.disease
Comorbidity
Preventive care
Appropriation
Case Studies
Health care
Self-monitoring
medicine
home-based healthcare technology
business
Set (psychology)
Everyday life
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....29331f03eb8ff55ce91cda53145e1b94