CAREER: Transforming Personal Informatics Systems to Support Routine Transitions in Healthy Eating

职业：转变个人信息系统以支持健康饮食的常规转变

• 批准号: 2239727
• 负责人: Chia-Fang Chung
• 金额: $ 60.51万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2239727&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Transforming; Personal; Informatics; Systems

Many people use personal informatics technology, such as smartwatches and mobile tracking applications, to support and maintain their healthy eating goals. However, disruptions and transitions of routines, such as moving, job changes, or family illness, can interfere with their ability to stick to their goals. When these transitions happen, they might influence how individuals access healthy eating resources or create challenges for people to maintain their healthy eating behavior outside their established routine. Transitions may also create new needs or change people’s priorities around healthy eating. However, current personal informatics technology is typically designed based on the assumption that everyday behavior remains static. As a result, when transitions happen in everyday life, existing technologies struggle to help people assess and adapt to the changing needs, constraints, and priorities. Thus, this project aims to examine how personal informatics systems can be designed to support people in healthy eating when experiencing transitions in their routines, individually and collaboratively. The initial line of work will be to systematically understand people’s needs and the challenges of healthy eating when transitions in their routines occur. These findings will help create design principles and theoretical foundations supporting technology design around these transitions. The second line of work will iteratively design and develop technologies that can support people to cope with transitions and continue to eat healthily. Finally, the project team will conduct field studies to evaluate the usefulness, usability, and engagement with these technologies over time and in the context of transitions. The project will contribute empirical knowledge, design guidelines, theoretical frameworks, and field-evaluated technology to support healthy eating during transitions in routines. It also includes integrated education and outreach activities for universities, high schools, and local communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

许多人使用个人信息技术技术，例如智能手表和移动跟踪应用程序，以支持和维护其健康的饮食目标。但是，诸如搬家，工作变化或家庭疾病之类的日常活动的中断和过渡会干扰他们坚持目标的能力。当这些过渡发生时，它们可能会影响个人如何获得健康的饮食资源，或者为人们在既定的常规之外保持健康饮食行为的挑战。过渡也可能会创造新的需求，也可能会改变人们在健康饮食方面的优先事项。但是，当前的个人信息技术通常是基于每天行为仍然静态的假设设计的。结果，当过渡在日常生活中发生过渡时，现有技术努力帮助人们评估并适应不断变化的需求，约束和优先事项。这是该项目旨在研究如何设计个人信息系统，以在单独和协作中经历常规的过渡时为健康饮食提供支持。最初的工作将是系统地了解人们的需求以及在日常活动中过渡时的健康饮食挑战。这些发现将有助于创建围绕这些过渡的技术设计的设计原则和理论基础。第二道工作将在迭代设计和开发技术，以支持人们应对过渡并继续健康饮食。最后，项目团队将进行现场研究，以评估随着时间的推移和过渡背景，这些技术的有用性，可用性和参与度。该项目将贡献经验知识，设计指南，理论框架和现场评估的技术，以支持日常过渡期间的健康饮食。它还包括针对大学，高中和当地社区的综合教育和外展活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。