Abstract | ||
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Medicine, psychology and quality of life literature all point to the importance of not just asking 'how are you?', but assessing and being aware of self and others' well-being. Social networking has been shown to have a variety of uses and benefits, but does not currently offer explicit expression of a well-being state. We developed and deployed Healthii, a social networking tool to convey well-being using a set of pre-defined discrete categories. We sought to understand how communicating this in a lightweight fashion may be used and valued. Using a hybrid methodology, over five weeks ten participants used the tool on Facebook, Twitter, or on the desktop, and in group meetings discussed the affect and effect of the tool, before a final individual survey. The trial showed that participants used and valued status expression for its support to convey state, and for self-reflection and group awareness. We discuss these findings as well as future opportunities for awareness visualization and automatic data integration. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1145/1940761.1940777 | iConference 2011 |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
social network,group awareness,explicit expression,automatic data integration,group meeting,awareness visualization,status expression,social networking tool,social awareness,final individual survey,expressing well-being online,well-being state,mixed methods,social networking,quality of life,data integrity | Conference | 4 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.53 | 13 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Paul André | 1 | 352 | 19.85 |
M. C. Schraefel | 2 | 1160 | 85.15 |
Alan J. Dix | 3 | 1688 | 207.48 |
Ryen White | 4 | 4546 | 222.75 |