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- SCAARF: a subtle conditioning approach for anxiety relief facilitationPublication . Lopes, Laís dos Santos; Campos, Pedro Filipe PereiraAnxiety disorders represent a significant public health problem, affecting more than 280 million people worldwide. Although mobile and wearable interfaces have long been developed to improve mental health issues, most of the current approaches still operate in the so-called “reflective mind”. However, learning about self-regulation techniques and coping strategies for dealing with and learning about stress can be counterproductive when it comes to anxiety disorders, since reflecting on your own health data can enhance stress and anxiety symptoms. This work introduces an alternative method to mitigating anxiety symptoms through the use of a smart wearable interface, SCAARF, which implements a subconscious, less invasive approach in the design of assistive technologies for mental health, that takes advantage of a multimodal intervention (haptic and auditory) to help users cope with anxious states. Qualitative results suggest that the SCAARF mobile app is effective in helping users relax and cope with anxious states of mind, and that the scarf form-factor is perceived as comfortable, familiar (and thus non-intrusive). Moreover, user feedback shows the SCAARF wearable supports a calm state of mind, as it reminds users to relax.
- SCAARF: a subtle conditioning approach for anxiety relief facilitationPublication . Lopes, Laís; Campos, PedroAnxiety disorders are one of the most prevalent mental health conditions, affecting more than 280 million people worldwide. This paper presents a novel approach to assistive technologies for mental health. In our approach, the paired combination of a wearable device — in the form of a scarf — and an accompanying mobile app, helps mitigate anxiety symptoms whenever they start to arise. This approach differs from conventional ubiquitous technologies developed for dealing with mental health, both in the role the mobile app plays in the process and in the way the intervention is delivered to users. SCAARF offers a more subtle, less obtrusive method for coping with anxiety. We discuss the results of an initial (three–week–long) evaluation of SCAARF with anxiety–suffering users. Qualitative results suggest that the SCAARF mobile app is effective in helping users relax and cope with anxious states of mind.
- Designing positive behavior change experiences: a systematic review and sentiment analysis based on online user reviews of fitness and nutrition mobile applicationsPublication . Pimenta, Francisca; Lopes, Laís; Gonçalves, Frederica; Campos, PedroWhile mobile devices have become ubiquitous, illnesses derived from poor lifestyle habits are on the rise. However, our understand ing of design mechanisms that induce healthier behavior change through mobile devices is still limited. Using the BCT Taxonomy, and online user reviews as an indicator of experience satisfaction, we make a three-folded contribution to designing interactive sys tems for behavior change: (i) a systematic review of applications for physical activity and healthier eating habits, coding BCTs; (ii) sentiment analysis performed on 20492 review sentences of these apps; and (iii) design implications regarding the implementation features for each BCT cluster, considering the highest-scored fea tures in terms of sentiment analysis. Positive expressions referred to the framing/reframing technique. Contrarily, negative expres sions were mostly related to reward and threat. Findings from this study can be used to benchmark interactions between users and behavior change interfaces, and provide design insights to support positive user experiences.
- SCAH!RF: a novel wearable as a subconscious approach for mitigating anxiety symptomsPublication . Lopes, Laís; Campos, Pedro F.; dos Santos Lopes, Laís; Pereira Campos, Pedro FilipeMobile and wearable interfaces have long been developed to improve mental health issues, including anxiety disorders, which represent a significant public health problem affecting more than 250 million people. However, most of the current approaches still operate in the so-called “reflective mind”, which hampers results since reflecting on your own health data can induce even more stress and anxiety. In this poster we introduce an alternative approach towards mitigating anxiety symptoms through the use of “subtle” wearable interfaces. Capitalizing on the subconscious processes of the mind is particularly attractive for anxiety disorders. We present a smart wearable in the form of a scarf that implements a subconscious, less-invasive approach in the design of assistive technologies for mental health. Preliminary results bring important implications for interaction design: combining psychological conditioning therapy (via a mobile app) with our smart scarf provides a solution that can be worn anytime anywhere to fight anxiety symptoms. But this work also raises many privacy and ethical concerns which should be discussed by the HCI community: how can designers balance the opaqueness of subconscious approaches with the necessary ethical transparency? And how can mental health technologies be conceived in such a way they do not instigate societal stigma in users?
- From monitoring to assisting: a systematic review towards healthier workplacesPublication . Lopes, Laís; Rodrigues, Ana; Cabral, Diogo; Campos, Pedro; dos Santos Lopes, Laís; Campos, PedroLong-term stress is associated with a decline in global health, affecting social, intellectual, and economic development alike. Although comprehensive action plans have been implemented to provide people access to mental health services and promote mental well-being, employees’ mental health generally takes second place to productivity and profit in business settings. This review paper offers an overview of the current interactive approaches used for relieving work-related stress associated with mental health. Results from the 38 included studies show that affective computing is used mainly for monitoring purposes and is usually combined with tangible interfaces that collect workers’ physiological changes. Although the ability to sense and predict employees’ affective states can potentially improve mental health in the workplace, there is a substantial disparity between monitoring one’s health and the delivery of practical interventions to mitigate stress found in the surveyed studies. Designing systems that capitalize on embodied interaction principles is paramount, especially in the post-pandemic context, as the concepts of physical and mental safety take on new meanings that must be consciously and carefully addressed, particularly in workplace settings. Finally, this paper highlights the main design implications for the effective implementation of interfaces to help mitigate stress in the workplace.