CAREER: Healthy Families: Technology to Support the Health and Wellness of Young Children

职业：健康家庭：支持幼儿健康的技术

• 批准号: 0952623
• 负责人: Julie Kientz
• 金额: $ 49.72万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0952623&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Healthy; Families; Technology; Support

This project focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of the effectiveness of computing interventions to assist parents in ensuring the healthy development of their child. As young children undergo rapid development and learn skills that will influence their entire lives, regular visits to a pediatrician and detailed record-keeping can ensure that children are progressing and can identify early warning signs of developmental delay or disability. The PI will use a comprehensive human-centered approach to explore and understand the tensions and opportunities for technology to support the health of young children while involving parents and professionals across diverse and underserved populations. The PI will seek to create feasible and effective technologies that motivate and encourage record-keeping by parents. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods will be employed to validate technology designs using a long-term study lasting 18 months in collaboration with Seattle Children's Health and Seattle King-County Public Health. Research outcomes will include: Discovery of design requirements for technologies to support the health of young children, especially for families from diverse and underserved populations; A suite of three new technologies based on the design requirements that leverage mobile and social computing technologies for assisting parents of young children with tracking their child's health information and learning about children's health; Validation of computing technology as a viable means of supporting parent record-keeping, of increasing parent knowledge and confidence in their child's developmental progress, and improving parent-pediatrician communication. Broader Impacts: This research involves conducting formative studies that further our knowledge of how health technology can be designed for underserved populations so as to minimize anxiety and support the doctor-patient relationship. Thus, the project will address a major public health goal of more closely tracking the health and development of young children, especially those from lower income backgrounds and those with developmental delay. The findings will have implications for domains beyond early childhood development. Project outcomes will expand our knowledge about how mobile and social computing applications can be developed and adapted based on the financial and time constraints of the users. Finally, this work will help refine techniques for evaluating technology applications designed for behavior change and long term outcomes, which in turn will advance the field of Human-Computer Interaction in general.

该项目着重于对计算干预措施有效性的设计，开发和评估，以帮助父母确保孩子的健康发展。 随着幼儿经历快速发展和学习将影响其一生的技能，定期拜访儿科医生和详细的记录保存可以确保儿童发展，并可以确定发育迟缓或残疾的预警信号。 PI将采用以人为本的全面方法来探索和理解技术支持幼儿健康的紧张局势和机会，同时让父母和专业人士涉及各种各样和服务不足的人群。 PI将寻求创建可行有效的技术，以激励和鼓励父母的记录保存。 定性研究方法和定量研究方法都将使用持续18个月的长期研究来验证技术设计，并与西雅图儿童健康和西雅图国王县公共卫生合作。 研究成果将包括：针对支持幼儿健康的技术的设计要求，尤其是对多样化和服务不足人群的家庭； 根据设计要求，一套由三个新技术组成的套件，这些要求利用移动和社交计算技术来帮助幼儿的父母跟踪孩子的健康信息并了解孩子的健康； 验证计算技术是支持父母记录保存的可行手段，增加了父母知识和对孩子的发育进步的信心以及改善父母培养科的交流。 更广泛的影响：这项研究涉及进行形成性研究，以进一步了解如何为服务不足的人群设计，从而最大程度地减少焦虑并支持医生与医生的关系。 因此，该项目将解决一个主要的公共卫生目标，即更密切地跟踪幼儿的健康和发展，尤其是那些收入较低的孩子以及发育迟缓的孩子的孩子的健康目标。 这些发现将对幼儿发展以外的领域产生影响。 项目成果将扩大我们有关如何根据用户的财务和时间限制来开发和适应移动和社交计算应用程序的知识。 最后，这项工作将有助于完善技术，以评估用于行为改变和长期成果的技术应用程序，这反过来又将推动人类计算机相互作用的领域。