@inproceedings{f7df7cee04144eb1bcc0d3810254669c,
title = "{"}Energy is a Finite Resource{"}: Designing Technology to Support Individuals across Fluctuating Symptoms of Depression",
abstract = "While the HCI field increasingly examines how digital tools can support individuals in managing mental health conditions, it remains unclear how these tools can accommodate these conditions' temporal aspects. Based on weekly interviews with five individuals with depression, conducted over six weeks, this study identifies design opportunities and challenges related to extending technology-based support across fluctuating symptoms. Our findings suggest that participants perceive events and contexts in daily life to have marked impact on their symptoms. Results also illustrate that ebbs and flows in symptoms profoundly affect how individuals practice depression self-management. While digital tools often aim to reach individuals while they feel depressed, we suggest they should also engage individuals when they are less symptomatic, leveraging their energy and motivation to build habits, establish plans and goals, and generate and organize content to prepare for symptom onset.",
keywords = "depression, digital interventions, mental health, motivation, personalization, tailoring, temporality",
author = "Rachel Kornfield and Renwen Zhang and Jennifer Nicholas and Schueller, {Stephen M.} and Cambo, {Scott A.} and Mohr, {David C.} and Madhu Reddy",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.; 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 ; Conference date: 25-04-2020 Through 30-04-2020",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1145/3313831.3376309",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}
