System

The overall Affective Health system is best understood through watching the following videos:

The system was designed in a tight loop with four parallel processes: technical, medical, design and user study explorations. The technical and medical investigations are described here:

  • Sanches, P., Höök, K., Kosmack Vaara, E., Weymann, C., Bylund, M., and Sjölinder, M. (2010). Mind the Body! Designing a Mobile Stress Management Application Encouraging Personal Reflection. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Aarhus, Denmark, ACM Press. (ACM DL)
  • Sanches, P. (2008). Supporting Self-Reflection in Everyday Life: An exploratory review of physiological input methods for the Affective Health system . Master Thesis, Departement of Computer and Systems Sciences, KTH(PDF)
  • Weymann, C. (2009). Development of an Affective User Interface for Mobile Phones. Master Thesis, Universität Koblenz Landau. (PDF)

The design explorations are published here:

  • Kosmack Vaara, E. Silvasan, I., Ståhl, A., Höök, K. (2010). Temporal Relations in Affective Health. In Proceedings of NordiCHI, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 18 - 20, ACM Press (PDF)
  • Kosmack Vaara, E., Höök, K., and Tholander, J. (2009). Mirroring bodily experiences over time. Work in progress at CHI 2009. Boston, USA (ACM DL link)

The user study explorations have been published in:

  • Ferreira, P., Sanches, P., Höök, K. and Jaensson, T. (2008). License to Chill! How to empower users to cope with stress. In proceedings of Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research (NordiCHI), pp. 123-132, ACM Press, Lund, Sweden, 2008.(PDF)
  • Ferreira, P. (2008). Dealing with Stress: Studying experiences of a real-time biofeedback system. Master Thesis. Departement of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/KTH(PDF)

The underlying design model employed in the project is named Interactional Empowerment. It is explained and discussed here:

  • Höök, K., Ståhl, A., Sundström, P., and Laaksolahti, J. (2008). Interactional Empowerment. In proceedings of ACM SIGCHI conference Computer-Human Interaction (CHI2008), pp. 647-656, Florence (ACM DL)
  • Sanches, P., Vaara, E., Sjölinder, M., Weymann, C. and Höök, K. (2010). Affective Health – designing for empowerment rather than stress diagnosis. At the workshop, Know thyself: monitoring and reflecting on facets of one's life at CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA. (PDF)
  • Höök, K., Sundström, P., Tholander, J., Ferreira, P., Ståhl, A., Laaksolahti, J., Kosmack Vaara, E., Karlsson, A., Sanches, P., Johansson, C., Sjölinder, M., Weymann, C., and Jaensson, T. (2010). Design Processes for Bodily Interaction. At the workshop Artifacts in Design: Representation, Ideation, and Process to be held at CHI, Atlanda, USA, April 2010.(PDF)

The Affective Health system was inspired by another prior system we built, named Affective Diary:

  • Affective Diary home page
  • Ståhl, A., Höök, K., Svensson, M., Taylor, A. and Combetto, M. (2009). Experiencing the Affective Diary. In Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: Volume 13, Issue5 (2009), Page 365.(PDF)