ZENse - Supporting Everyday Emotional Reflection

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 supportin...

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Published inHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015 Vol. 9299; pp. 448 - 455
Main Authors Löw, Christian, Gad-El-Hak, Chalid, Ganhör, Roman, Tellioglu, Hilda
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 01.01.2015
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Emotion
Information retrieval
Quantified-self
Self-reflection
Tracking
User interface design & usability
Wearable
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Summary: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.
ISBN:331922722X
9783319227221
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_36