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Creating Calming Technology and Behavior Change
awareness and participation on different technologies
Christin StauboStanford University 20116/6-2011
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Imagine this was the last day of your life…
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How would you see the world?
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Awareness is the first step to calm
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This has been mindset instantiated for the ‘Calming Behavior and Technologies’ project.
Experiments
Facebook• Chose one
emotion and capture the feeling in photo form
• Technology: Facebook
Blog/Email• Receive an email
prompt, take a photo using the prompt, and upload to a blog
• Technology: Mass email and blog
SMS/MMS• Take 2 deep
breaths in the morning before getting out of bed
• Technology: Personal, daily text message
Non-tech• Take one walk a
day and smile at someone
• Technology: None (instant via environment)
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Participants:
BeforeYoga /meditation
practitioner with an overactive mind
AfterUses photo
sharing/capturing applications as a new
calming outlet by her own volition
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Technological ability is more important for success than calming ability and motivation
Insight:
User feedback:
Facebook• “I don't want
to participate on FB”
• “I wish more people participated, so I could explore other peoples photos”
Blog• “ I only
looked at the photos, cool to see what other uploads, especially what stresses them out” Johan
Email• “Reminded
me of being more aware but I didn't do them”- Mark
SMS/MMS• “I felt it was
nice when someone asked me how I was feeling”
• “It also triggered me in case I forgot”- Tom
Non-tech• “I become
more aware of others”-Asha
• “I haven't stopped doing it”- James
Drivers of Participation
Low Motivation High
Social Awareness Self
Layered Feedback Direct
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Different types of participation is key for a positive experience in awareness
Principle:
Levels of participationLevel 1
• Receive trigger, do not participate
Level 2
• Receive trigger, observe , do not participate
Level 3
• Receive trigger, Participate , don’t report
Level 4
• Receive trigger, Participate , report few times
Level 5
• Receive trigger, Participate, report most times
Level 6
• Receive trigger, Participate , report everytime
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Questions?
