Expressing well-being online
Expressing well-being online
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 Health ii, 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.
Experience, Group awareness, Mixed methods, Self-reflection, Social networking, Well-being
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André, Paul
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Schraefel, M. C.
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Dix, Alan
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White, Ryen W.
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8 February 2011
André, Paul
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Schraefel, M. C.
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Dix, Alan
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White, Ryen W.
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André, Paul, Schraefel, M. C., Dix, Alan and White, Ryen W.
(2011)
Expressing well-being online.
In Proceedings of the 2011 iConference: Inspiration, Integrity, and Intrepidity, iConference 2011.
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(doi:10.1145/1940761.1940777).
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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 Health ii, 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.
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Published date: 8 February 2011
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6th Annual Conference on 2011 iConference: Inspiration, Integrity, and Intrepidity, iConference 2011, , Seattle, WA, United States, 2011-02-08 - 2011-02-11
Keywords:
Experience, Group awareness, Mixed methods, Self-reflection, Social networking, Well-being
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/500646
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M. C. Schraefel
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Alan Dix
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Ryen W. White
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