Computing and mental health: intentionality and reflection at the click of a button

Maria Angela Felicita Cristina Ferrario; Will A. Simm; Adrian  Gradinar; Stephen Forshaw; Marcia Tavares Abreu Smith; Ian C. Smith; Jon Whittle; Thomas Lee

doi:10.1145/3154862.3154877

Computing and mental health: intentionality and reflection at the click of a button

Maria Angela Felicita Cristina Ferrario, Will A. Simm, Adrian Gradinar, Stephen Forshaw, Marcia Tavares Abreu Smith, Ian C. Smith, Jon Whittle, Thomas Lee

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Abstract

Automated passive sensing applications and self-reported smart diaries seem to hold promise for the management of anxiety in autism and other mental health conditions. However, passive sensing often struggles with noisy data, ambiguous feedback and weak user agency over the device, whilst self-reporting relies on user-entered data which can be time consuming and cognitively demanding. To address these limitations, we explore a different approach, whereby individuals consciously actuate personal data capture and are in control of it at all times; yet, the interaction solely involves clicking a button, thus avoiding cognitive overload whilst supporting immediate reflection. We call this approach intentive computing. Through our initial investigations we found that conscious interactions cannot only provide real-time relief in anxiety management, but can also function as memory anchors irrespective of the content captured and even prior to data visualization

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PervasiveHealth '17 Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-10
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450363631
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3154862.3154877
Publication status	Published - 23 May 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Ferrario, M. A. F. C., Simm, W. A., Gradinar, A., Forshaw, S., Smith, M. T. A., Smith, I. C., Whittle, J., & Lee, T. (2017). Computing and mental health: intentionality and reflection at the click of a button. In PervasiveHealth '17 Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 1-10). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3154862.3154877

Ferrario, Maria Angela Felicita Cristina ; Simm, Will A. ; Gradinar, Adrian ; Forshaw, Stephen ; Smith, Marcia Tavares Abreu ; Smith, Ian C. ; Whittle, Jon ; Lee, Thomas. / Computing and mental health: intentionality and reflection at the click of a button. PervasiveHealth '17 Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. ACM, 2017. pp. 1-10

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