Designing self-monitoring technologies for emotional self-awareness and wellbeing

In order to sustain and improve our wellbeing we must be aware of our emotions and what triggers them. In my dissertation I propose to design and develop a self-monitoring mobile application that allows people to express and better understand their affective states, in a fun and engaging way. Through this tool I intend to explore how creative expression techniques, such as photography and painting, can be used to improve emotional self-awareness and to foster engagement.

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Carla Nave

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Publication date: July 2017

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[0001]NOVALincs, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.104

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

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Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] [1.] Alberto BetellaPaul F M J Verschure 2016 The affective slider: A digital selfassessment scale for the measurement of human emotions PLoS ONE 11,2 1 11 http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148037

[2] [2.] Marc A. BrackettSusan E. RiversMaria R. ReyesPeter Salovey 2012 Enhancing academic performance and social and emotional competence with the RULER feeling words curriculum Learning and Individual Differences 22 2 218 224 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2010.10.002

[3] [3.] Maragaret M. BradleyPeter J Lang 1994 Measuring Emotion The selfAssessment Manikin and the semantic differential Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 25 1 49 59

[4] [4.] Rafael A. CalvoDorian Peters 2014 Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential. MIT Press

[5] [5.] Rafael A CalvoDorian Peters 2014 Positive Computing The MIT Press

[6] [6.] Rafael A CalvoDorian Peters 2017 Positive Computing: Research & Practice in Wellbeing Technology Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’17, 1220 1223 http://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3027099

[7] [7.] Bruno CardosoTeresa RomãoNuno Correia 2013 CAAT - A Discrete Approach to Emotion Assessment Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: 1047 1052

[8] [8.] Eun Kyoung Choe 2014 Designing SelfMonitoring Technology to Promote Data Capture and Reflection Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences 76

[9] [9.] Adam W A GeraghtyLeandro D TorresYan LeykinEliseo J Pérez-StableRicardo F Muñoz 2013 Understanding attrition from international Internet health interventions: a step towards global eHealth Health promotion international 28 3 442 52 http://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/das029

[10] [10.] Stephen W GilroyMarc CavazzaRémi Chaignon et al 2008 E-Tree: Emotionally Driven Augmented Reality Art Information Systems 945 948 http://doi.org/10.1145/1459359.1459529

[11] [11.] Sean A. GuilloryKrzysztof A. Bujarski 2013 Exploring emotions using invasive methods: Review of 60 years of human intracranial electrophysiology Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9 12 1880 1889 http://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu002

[12] [12.] Ellen IsaacsArtie KonradAlan WalendowskiThomas LennigVictoria HollisSteve Whittaker 2013 Echoes From the Past : How Technology Mediated Reflection Improves Well-Being Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013): 1071 1080 http://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466137

[13] [13.] Hyo-jin Kim 2015 Know Yourself: Selfportrait with Emotion Expressed in the EEG Data 371 374

[14] [14.] Ian LiAnind DeyJodi Forlizzi 2010 A stage-based model of personal informatics systems Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems CHI 10 557 http://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753409

[15] [15.] Deborah Lupton Self-tracking Modes: Reflexive Self-Monitoring and Data Practices May 16 2017 http://ssrn.com/abstract=2483549

[16] [16.] Margaret E. MorrisQusai KathawalaTodd K. Leen et al 2010 Mobile therapy: Case study evaluations of a cell phone application for emotional self-awareness Journal of Medical Internet Research 12 2 1 21 http://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1371

[17] [17.] Jeanne NakamuraMihaly Csikszentmihalyi 2002 The Concept of Flow Optimal Experience and Its Role in Development 89 105

[18] [18.] Carla NaveNuno CorreiaTeresa Romão 2016 Exploring Emotions through Painting, Photography and Expressive Writing Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - ACE2016, 1 8 http://doi.org/10.1145/3001773.3001790

[19] [19.] Jasmin NiessSarah Diefenbach 2016 Communication Styles of Interactive Tools for Self-Improvement Psychology of WellBeing 6 1 3 http://doi.org/10.1186/s13612-016-0040-8

[20] [20.] Robert Plutchik 2001 The nature of emotions: Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots American Scientist 89 4 344 350 http://doi.org/10.1511/2001.4.344

[21] [21.] Kiran K RachuriMirco MusolesiCecilia MascoloPeter J RentfrowChris LongworthAndrius Aucinas EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research May 21 2017 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cm542/papers/Ubicomp10.pdf

[22] [22.] J. A. RussellJames Russel 1980 A Circumplex Model of Affect Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 6 1161 1178 http://doi.org/10.1037/h0077714

[23] [23.] K. a. SchoutenG. J. de NietJ. W. KnipscheerR. J. KleberG. J. M. Hutschemaekers 2014 The Effectiveness of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Traumatized Adults: A Systematic Review on Art Therapy and Trauma Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 16 2 220 228 http://doi.org/10.1177/1524838014555032

[24] [24.] Qin ShuQiang TuKanliang Wang 2011 The Impact of Computer Self-Efficacy and Technology Dependence on Computer-Related Technostress: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 27 10 923 939 http://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2011.555313

[25] [25.] Anna StåhlKristina Höök 2008 Reflecting on the Design Process of the Affective Diary 18 22 http://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463245

[26] [26.] Anna StåhlKristina HöökMartin SvenssonAlex S. TaylorMarco Combetto 2009 Experiencing the affective diary Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 13 5 365 378 http://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-008-0202-7

[27] [27.] Melanie Swan 2012 Sensor Mania! The Internet of Things, Wearable Computing, Objective Metrics, and the Quantified Self 2.0 Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 1 3 217 253 http://doi.org/10.3390/jsan1030217

[28] [28.] Sylvia D Kauer 2012 Emotional SelfAwareness and Depressive Symptons: An Investigation of an Early Intervention Mobile Phone Self-Monitoring Program for Adolescents

[29] [29.] Judy Weiser 2008 PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums

[30] [30.] World Health Organization 2001 Mental Health: A Call for Action. Geneva April 17 2017 http://www.who.int/mental_health/advocacy/en/Call_for_Action_MoH_Intro.pdf

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