TY - GEN
T1 - Information, sharing and support in pregnancy
T2 - 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014
AU - Peyton, Tamara
AU - Poole, Erika
AU - Reddy, Madhu
AU - Kraschnewski, Jennifer
AU - Chuang, Cynthia
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Early pregnancy education and social support is crucial for women, in order to enable them to achieve a healthy pregnancy weight. Opportunities exist for mobile health support applications (mHealth) to aid in pregnancy health management. We present preliminary results of our study of lower-income pregnant American women, in order to understand the design need and challenges for potential mHealth interventions for pregnancy. We find that existing apps ignore the crucial role of the spouse, overstate the need for social sharing with strangers and fail to provide targeted and individualized information about early pregnancy.
AB - Early pregnancy education and social support is crucial for women, in order to enable them to achieve a healthy pregnancy weight. Opportunities exist for mobile health support applications (mHealth) to aid in pregnancy health management. We present preliminary results of our study of lower-income pregnant American women, in order to understand the design need and challenges for potential mHealth interventions for pregnancy. We find that existing apps ignore the crucial role of the spouse, overstate the need for social sharing with strangers and fail to provide targeted and individualized information about early pregnancy.
KW - Design
KW - MHealth
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Qualitative research
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U2 - 10.1145/2556420.2556489
DO - 10.1145/2556420.2556489
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84898964743
SN - 9781450325417
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 213
EP - 216
BT - CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 15 February 2014 through 19 February 2014
ER -