TY - GEN
T1 - Biological rhythms and technology
AU - Matthews, Mark
AU - Carroll, Erin
AU - Abdullah, Saeed
AU - Snyder, Jaime
AU - Kay, Matthew
AU - Choudhury, Tanzeem
AU - Gay, Geri
AU - Kientz, Julie
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Biological rhythms enable living organisms to adapt and live with periodical environmental changes, such as variation in the relative position of the earth and the sun. Internal rhythms, like body temperature and sleep-wake cycle, are driven by numerous biological processes and can be maintained even in the absence of external environmental cues. These rhythms affect how we feel, think, and act. They are profoundly important for our health, quality of sleep, and mood. Yet the digital devices we use are ignorant of our biology. They respond uniformly to our touch and click. Recently there has been a considerable increase of research within the HCI community to support behavior change, personal insight, and increase productivity. This workshop will bring together researchers in sleep, well-being, and circadian rhythms to discuss the possibility of rhythm systems: technologies that play to the strengths of our biology. It will investigate how HCI can complement our biological rhythms and will focus on two areas: measurement and intervention.
AB - Biological rhythms enable living organisms to adapt and live with periodical environmental changes, such as variation in the relative position of the earth and the sun. Internal rhythms, like body temperature and sleep-wake cycle, are driven by numerous biological processes and can be maintained even in the absence of external environmental cues. These rhythms affect how we feel, think, and act. They are profoundly important for our health, quality of sleep, and mood. Yet the digital devices we use are ignorant of our biology. They respond uniformly to our touch and click. Recently there has been a considerable increase of research within the HCI community to support behavior change, personal insight, and increase productivity. This workshop will bring together researchers in sleep, well-being, and circadian rhythms to discuss the possibility of rhythm systems: technologies that play to the strengths of our biology. It will investigate how HCI can complement our biological rhythms and will focus on two areas: measurement and intervention.
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U2 - 10.1145/2559206.2559230
DO - 10.1145/2559206.2559230
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900542291
SN - 9781450324748
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 123
EP - 126
BT - CHI EA 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -