ZENse - Supporting Everyday Emotional Reflection

ZENse - Supporting Everyday Emotional Reflection

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.

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Authors
  • Löw, Christian
  • Gad-El-Hak, Chalid
  • Ganhör, Roman
  • Tellioglu, Hilda
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Editors
  • Abascal, Julio
  • Barbosa, Simone
  • Fetter, Mirko
  • Gross, Tom
  • Palanque, Philippe
  • Winckler, Marco
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Shortfacts
Category
Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Short Paper in Proceedings)
Event Title
15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference - Interact 2015, Bamberg
Divisions
Cooperative Systems
Subjects
Informatik in Beziehung zu Mensch und Gesellschaft
Informatik Sonstiges
Event Location
Bamberg, Germany
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
12.-18.9.2015
Series Name
15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bamberg, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV
ISSN/ISBN
978-3-319-22722-1
Page Range
pp. 448-455
Date
September 2015
Official URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_36
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