Concealing or revealing mobile medical devices?: Designing for onstage and offstage presentation

Aisling Ann O'Kane; Yvonne Rogers; Ann E. Blandford

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702453

Concealing or revealing mobile medical devices? Designing for onstage and offstage presentation

Aisling Ann O'Kane, Yvonne Rogers, Ann E. Blandford

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

26 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Adults with Type 1 Diabetes have choices regarding the technology they use to self-manage their chronic condition. They can use glucose meters, insulin pumps, smartphone apps, and other technologies to support their everyday care. However, little is known about how their social lives might influence what they adopt or how they use technologies. A multi-method study was conducted to examine contextual factors that influence their technology use. While individual differences play a large role in everyday use, social factors were also found to influence use. For example, people can hide their devices in uncertain social situations or show them off to achieve a purpose. We frame these social behaviours using Goffman's theatre metaphor of onstage and offstage behaviour, and discuss how this kind of analysis can inform the design of future mobile medical devices for self-management of chronic conditions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1689-1698
Number of pages	10
Volume	2015-April
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702453
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015: Crossings - COEX, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33 http://chi2015.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Abbreviated title	CHI 2015
Country	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15
Other	For over 30 years, the CHI conference (pronounced ‘kai’) has attracted the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from businesses and universities to share ground-breaking research and innovations related to how humans interact with digital technologies. The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) CHI conference is the world's premiere conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, presenting a highly selective showcase of the very best advances across the disciplines of computer science, cognitive psychology, design, social science, human factors, artificial intelligence, graphics, visualization, multi-media design and other disciplines.
Internet address	http://chi2015.acm.org/

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Digital Health

Keywords

Digital Health

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Dr Aisling A O'Kane
- a.okane@bristol.ac.uk
- Department of Computer Science - Senior Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction for Health
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O'Kane, A. A., Rogers, Y., & Blandford, A. E. (2015). Concealing or revealing mobile medical devices? Designing for onstage and offstage presentation. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (Vol. 2015-April, pp. 1689-1698). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702453

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O'Kane, AA, Rogers, Y & Blandford, AE 2015, Concealing or revealing mobile medical devices? Designing for onstage and offstage presentation. in CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. vol. 2015-April, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1689-1698, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702453

Concealing or revealing mobile medical devices? Designing for onstage and offstage presentation. / O'Kane, Aisling Ann; Rogers, Yvonne; Blandford, Ann E.

CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Vol. 2015-April Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 1689-1698.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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