Schroeder Jessica, Karkar Ravi, Murinova Natalia, Fogarty James, Munson Sean A
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington.
Headache Clinic, University of Washington.
Proc ACM Interact Mob Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2019 Dec;3(4). doi: 10.1145/3369809.
Although self-tracking offers potential for a more complete, accurate, and longer-term understanding of personal health, many people struggle with or fail to achieve their goals for health-related self-tracking. This paper investigates how to address challenges that result from current self-tracking tools leaving a person's goals for their data unstated and lacking explicit support. We examine supporting people and health providers in expressing and pursuing their tracking-related goals via goal-directed self-tracking, a novel method to represent relationships between tracking goals and underlying data. Informed by a reanalysis of data from a prior study of migraine tracking goals, we created a paper prototype to explore whether and how goal-directed self-tracking could address current disconnects between the goals people have for data in their chronic condition management and the tools they use to support such goals. We examined this prototype in interviews with 14 people with migraine and 5 health providers. Our findings indicate the potential for scaffolding goal-directed self-tracking to: 1) elicit different types and hierarchies of management and tracking goals; 2) help people prepare for all stages of self-tracking towards a specific goal; and 3) contribute additional expertise in patient-provider collaboration. Based on our findings, we present implications for the design of tools that explicitly represent and support an individual's specific self-tracking goals.
尽管自我追踪为更全面、准确且长期地了解个人健康提供了潜力，但许多人在与健康相关的自我追踪目标方面面临困难或未能实现这些目标。本文探讨如何应对当前自我追踪工具所带来的挑战，这些工具未阐明个人对其数据的目标且缺乏明确支持。我们研究如何通过目标导向的自我追踪来支持人们和健康服务提供者表达并追求与追踪相关的目标，这是一种表示追踪目标与基础数据之间关系的新方法。基于对先前偏头痛追踪目标研究数据的重新分析，我们创建了一个纸质原型，以探究目标导向的自我追踪是否以及如何能够解决人们在慢性病管理中对数据的目标与他们用于支持这些目标的工具之间当前存在的脱节问题。我们在对14名偏头痛患者和5名健康服务提供者的访谈中对该原型进行了检验。我们的研究结果表明，搭建目标导向的自我追踪框架具有以下潜力：1）引出不同类型和层次的管理与追踪目标；2）帮助人们为朝着特定目标进行自我追踪的各个阶段做好准备；3）在患者与提供者的协作中贡献额外的专业知识。基于我们的研究结果，我们提出了对明确表示并支持个人特定自我追踪目标的工具设计的启示。
