Reference Information
Experience in Social Affective Applications: Methodologies and Case Study
- Paul André, Alan Dix, m.c. schraefel, and Ryen W. White
- CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia
Experience in Social Affective Applications: Methodologies and Case Study
- Paul André, Alan Dix, m.c. schraefel, and Ryen W. White
- CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia
Summary
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are large parts of society, and have allowed people to share their thoughts and feelings to the entire world. The researcher of this paper saw this and decided to investigate how to expand this idea and allow people more specificity in conveying their emotions to others. Doing this, they felt, might improve mental health and quality of living.
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are large parts of society, and have allowed people to share their thoughts and feelings to the entire world. The researcher of this paper saw this and decided to investigate how to expand this idea and allow people more specificity in conveying their emotions to others. Doing this, they felt, might improve mental health and quality of living.
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The program they designed is called Healthii, and it allows people to gauge their mood by rating their levels of busyness, enjoyment, stress, and health using a numbering system from 1 to 3. They gave this program to a group of friends and colleagues to use on Facebook and Twitter so they could see the participants impressions of it over 5 weeks. Then they revealed their findings, and even discussed their methods along with pros and cons of each. Due to how many different methods they required for this study, they hope their findings prompt a discussion on whether new methodologies are needed for the future of HCI research.
Discussion
Using social networking sites to help people open up and improve mental health is an interesting concept. Some might not want to be as specific as Healthii is, but there are definitely a lot of people who would like to have such a tool. Writing words can only express so much before the specifics of the emotion are lost. I personally loved the idea of eMoto that helped express emotions through text messages. It’s so easy to be misunderstood by something that is written in a text without the benefits of voice inflections. The paper was an easy read and interesting, but I’m pulling for this eMoto program.
Using social networking sites to help people open up and improve mental health is an interesting concept. Some might not want to be as specific as Healthii is, but there are definitely a lot of people who would like to have such a tool. Writing words can only express so much before the specifics of the emotion are lost. I personally loved the idea of eMoto that helped express emotions through text messages. It’s so easy to be misunderstood by something that is written in a text without the benefits of voice inflections. The paper was an easy read and interesting, but I’m pulling for this eMoto program.
You made an important remark about metal health. I think this tool makes easier the processes of evaluating and recognizing how we feel, and opening up can be something we sometimes need in order to feel better, for example when we are feeling stressed out.
ReplyDeleteVery true about the eMoto and that words alone can cause lead people to the wrong interpretation of a statement.
ReplyDeleteI like the comment on losing emotion through writing words. Without an interactive image, it becomes hard to understand true emotion
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