TY - GEN
T1 - Momentary Stressor Logging and Reflective Visualizations
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
AU - Neupane, Sameer
AU - Saha, Mithun
AU - Ali, Nasir
AU - Hnat, Timothy
AU - Samiei, Shahin Alan
AU - Nandugudi, Anandatirtha
AU - Almeida, David M.
AU - Kumar, Santosh
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PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - Commercial wearables from Fitbit, Garmin, and Whoop have recently introduced real-time notifications based on detecting changes in physiological responses indicating potential stress. In this paper, we investigate how these new capabilities can be leveraged to improve stress management. We developed a smartwatch app, a smartphone app, and a cloud service, and conducted a 100-day field study with 122 participants who received prompts triggered by physiological responses several times a day. They were asked whether they were stressed, and if so, to log the most likely stressor. Each week, participants received new visualizations of their data to self-reflect on patterns and trends. Participants reported better awareness of their stressors, and self-initiating fourteen kinds of behavioral changes to reduce stress in their daily lives. Repeated self-reports over 14 weeks showed reductions in both stress intensity (in 26,521 momentary ratings) and stress frequency (in 1,057 weekly surveys).
AB - Commercial wearables from Fitbit, Garmin, and Whoop have recently introduced real-time notifications based on detecting changes in physiological responses indicating potential stress. In this paper, we investigate how these new capabilities can be leveraged to improve stress management. We developed a smartwatch app, a smartphone app, and a cloud service, and conducted a 100-day field study with 122 participants who received prompts triggered by physiological responses several times a day. They were asked whether they were stressed, and if so, to log the most likely stressor. Each week, participants received new visualizations of their data to self-reflect on patterns and trends. Participants reported better awareness of their stressors, and self-initiating fourteen kinds of behavioral changes to reduce stress in their daily lives. Repeated self-reports over 14 weeks showed reductions in both stress intensity (in 26,521 momentary ratings) and stress frequency (in 1,057 weekly surveys).
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85194900170
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85194900170#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1145/3613904.3642662
DO - 10.1145/3613904.3642662
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85194900170
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -