Self-experimentation for behavior change: Design and formative evaluation of two approaches

Jisoo Lee; Erin Walker; Winslow Burleson; Matthew Kay; Matthew Buman; Eric B. Hekler

doi:10.1145/3025453.3026038

Self-experimentation for behavior change: Design and formative evaluation of two approaches

Jisoo Lee, Erin Walker, Winslow Burleson, Matthew Kay, Matthew Buman, Eric B. Hekler

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Abstract

Desirable outcomes such as health are tightly linked to behaviors, thus inspiring research on technologies that support people in changing those behaviors. Many behavior-change technologies are designed by HCI experts but this approach can make it difficult to personalize support to each user's unique goals and needs. This paper reports on the iterative design of two complementary support strategies for helping users create their own personalized behavior-change plans via self-experimentation: One emphasized the use of interactive instructional materials, and the other additionally introduced context-aware computing to enable user creation of "just in time" home-based interventions. In a formative trial with 27 users, we compared these two approaches to an unstructured sleep education control. Results suggest great promise in both strategies and provide insights on how to develop personalized behavior-change technologies. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	6837-6849
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026038
State	Published - May 2 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: May 6 2017 → May 11 2017

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2017-May

Other

Other	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	5/6/17 → 5/11/17

Funding

This work was supported by a Google Research Faculty Award (PI: Hekler). Thanks to Bob Evans from Google for being our sponsor, for support on the early conceptualization of this work, and for providing the tool, Paco, for our use.

Keywords

Behavior change
Context-aware computing
Just-in-time interventions
Self-experimentation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Lee, J., Walker, E., Burleson, W., Kay, M., Buman, M., & Hekler, E. B. (2017). Self-experimentation for behavior change: Design and formative evaluation of two approaches. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 6837-6849). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026038

Lee, Jisoo ; Walker, Erin ; Burleson, Winslow et al. / Self-experimentation for behavior change : Design and formative evaluation of two approaches. CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 6837-6849 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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