Chung Chia-Fang, Agapie Elena, Schroeder Jessica, Mishra Sonali, Fogarty James, Munson Sean A
Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington.
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington.
Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst. 2017 May 2;2017:1674-1687. doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025747.
Many people appropriate social media and online communities in their pursuit of personal health goals, such as healthy eating or increased physical activity. However, people struggle with impression management, and with reaching the right audiences when they share health information on these platforms. Instagram, a popular photo-based social media platform, has attracted many people who post and share their food photos. We aim to inform the design of tools to support healthy behaviors by understanding how people appropriate Instagram to track and share food data, the benefits they obtain from doing so, and the challenges they encounter. We interviewed 16 women who consistently record and share what they eat on Instagram. Participants tracked to support themselves and others in their pursuit of healthy eating goals. They sought social support for their own tracking and healthy behaviors and strove to provide that support for others. People adapted their personal tracking practices to better receive and give this support. Applying these results to the design of health tracking tools has the potential to help people better access social support.
许多人在追求个人健康目标（如健康饮食或增加体育活动）时会利用社交媒体和在线社区。然而，人们在印象管理以及在这些平台上分享健康信息时如何触达合适的受众方面存在困难。照片墙（Instagram）是一个广受欢迎的基于照片的社交媒体平台，吸引了许多人发布和分享他们的食物照片。我们旨在通过了解人们如何利用照片墙来跟踪和分享食物数据、他们从中获得的益处以及遇到的挑战，为支持健康行为的工具设计提供参考。我们采访了16名在照片墙上持续记录并分享自己饮食情况的女性。参与者进行跟踪是为了在追求健康饮食目标的过程中支持自己和他人。她们为自己的跟踪和健康行为寻求社会支持，并努力为他人提供这种支持。人们调整自己的个人跟踪做法，以便更好地接受和给予这种支持。将这些结果应用于健康跟踪工具的设计有可能帮助人们更好地获得社会支持。
