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SCAH!RF: a novel wearable as a subconscious approach for mitigating anxiety symptoms
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Mobile 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?
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Mental health Anxiety disorders Subconscious Assistive technologies Wearables Haptic interfaces . Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Lopes, L., Campos, P.F. (2019). SCAH!RF: A Novel Wearable as a Subconscious Approach for Mitigating Anxiety Symptoms. In: Lamas, D., Loizides, F., Nacke, L., Petrie, H., Winckler, M., Zaphiris, P. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019. INTERACT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1_58
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Springer International Publishing