Co-Designing Personal Health?: Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care Technologies

Amid Ayobi; Katarzyna Stawarz; Dmitri Katz; Paul Marshall; Taku Yamagata; Raul Santos-Rodriguez; Peter A Flach; Aisling Ann O'Kane

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Co-Designing Personal Health? Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care Technologies

Amid Ayobi, Katarzyna Stawarz, Dmitri Katz, Paul Marshall, Taku Yamagata, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Peter A Flach, Aisling Ann O'Kane

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Abstract

Co-design is a widely applied design process with well-documented values, including mutual learning and collective creativity. However, the real-world challenges of conducting multidisciplinary co-design research to inform the design of self-care technologies are not well established. We provide a qualitative account of a multidisciplinary project that aimed to co-design machine learning applications for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) self-management. Through interviews, we identify not only perceived social, technological and strategic benefits of co-design but also organisational, translational and pragmatic design challenges: participants with T1D experienced difficulties in co-designing systems that met their individual self-care needs as part of group activities; HCI and AI researchers described challenges resulting from applying co-design outcomes to data-driven ML work; and industry collaborators highlighted academic data sharing regulations as cross- organisational challenges that can impede co-design efforts. Based on this understanding, we discuss opportunities for supporting multidisciplinary collaborations and aligning individual health needs with collaborative co-design activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-26
Number of pages	24
Volume	5
Edition	CSCW2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3479601
Publication status	Published - 18 Oct 2021
Event	ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2021 - Virtual Duration: 23 Oct 2021 → 27 Oct 2021 https://cscw.acm.org/2021/

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

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Conference	ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2021
Abbreviated title	CSCW 2021
Period	23/10/21 → 27/10/21
Internet address	https://cscw.acm.org/2021/

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For context we provide here an overview of the 18-month long co-design project. Its aim was to co-design ML-based decision support concepts and co-create suitable machine learning approaches. The co-design project was funded by a scheme with a focus on fostering collaborations between businesses and academic organisations. The project involved HCI researchers, AI researchers and industry collaborators. The industry collaborators worked at a T1D start-up. A shared objective was to co-design ML-based decision support concepts and cocreate suitable machine learning approaches. Fifteen participants with T1D (aged 24-69; 3-34 years since T1D diagnosis; 11 were male) were recruited. Participants received an Apple Watch, a 12-months Dexcom Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) subscription, and access to an app provided by the start-up for their participation.

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Keywords

co-design
participatory design
diabetes
t1d
personal health
self-care
self-management
HCI-AI
explainable artificial intelligence
machine learning

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COTADS: 8030 EPSRC via Southampton TAS_PP_00034 - COdesigning Trustworthy Autonomous Diabetes Systems
O'Kane, A. A., Marshall, P. & Ayobi, A.
1/05/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
ML4D: InnovateUK ML4D: Machine Learning for Enhanced Diabetes Self-Care
O'Kane, A. A., Marshall, P., Santos-Rodriguez, R. & Flach, P. A.
1/11/18 → 30/04/20
Project: Research

CSCW 2021 Honorary Mention
Ayobi, A. (Recipient), Stawarz, K. (Recipient), Katz, D. (Recipient), Marshall, Paul (Recipient), Yamagata, Taku (Recipient), Santos-Rodriguez, Raul (Recipient), Flach, Peter A (Recipient) & O'Kane, Aisling A (Recipient), 14 Oct 2021
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Ayobi, A., Stawarz, K., Katz, D., Marshall, P., Yamagata, T., Santos-Rodriguez, R., Flach, P. A., & O'Kane, A. A. (2021). Co-Designing Personal Health? Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care Technologies. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW2 ed., Vol. 5, pp. 1-26). [475] (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3479601

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