The Perceived Utility of Smartphone and Wearable Sensor Data in Digital Self-tracking Technologies for Mental Health

Kaylee Payne Kruzan; Ada Ng; Colleen Stiles-Shields; Emily G. Lattie; David C. Mohr; Madhu Reddy

doi:10.1145/3544548.3581209

The Perceived Utility of Smartphone and Wearable Sensor Data in Digital Self-tracking Technologies for Mental Health

Kaylee Payne Kruzan, Ada Ng, Colleen Stiles-Shields, Emily G. Lattie, David C. Mohr, Madhu Reddy

Preventive Medicine

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Abstract

Mental health symptoms are commonly discovered in primary care. Yet, these settings are not set up to provide psychological treatment. Digital interventions can play a crucial role in stepped care management of patients' symptoms where patients are offered a low intensity intervention, and treatment evolves to incorporate providers if needed. Though digital interventions often use smartphone and wearable sensor data, little is known about patients' desires to use these data to manage mental health symptoms. In 10 interviews with patients with symptoms of depression and anxiety, we explored their: symptom self-management, current and desired use of sensor data, and comfort sharing such data with providers. Findings support the use digital interventions to manage mental health, yet they also highlight a misalignment in patient needs and current efforts to use sensors. We outline considerations for future research, including extending design thinking to wraparound services that may be necessary to truly reduce healthcare burden.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581209
State	Published - Apr 19 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: Apr 23 2023 → Apr 28 2023

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	4/23/23 → 4/28/23

Funding

This work was funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (T32MH115882, P50MH119029, and K08MH125069).

Keywords

anxiety
depression
digital mental health
mobile phone app
primary care
self-management
sensing
tracking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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Kruzan, K. P., Ng, A., Stiles-Shields, C., Lattie, E. G., Mohr, D. C., & Reddy, M. (2023). The Perceived Utility of Smartphone and Wearable Sensor Data in Digital Self-tracking Technologies for Mental Health. In CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 88 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581209

Kruzan, Kaylee Payne ; Ng, Ada ; Stiles-Shields, Colleen et al. / The Perceived Utility of Smartphone and Wearable Sensor Data in Digital Self-tracking Technologies for Mental Health. CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Kruzan KP, Ng A, Stiles-Shields C, Lattie EG, Mohr DC, Reddy M. The Perceived Utility of Smartphone and Wearable Sensor Data in Digital Self-tracking Technologies for Mental Health. In CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2023. 88. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3544548.3581209

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