Constructing identities through storytelling in diabetes management
Abstract
The continuing epidemics of diabetes and obesity create much need for information technologies that can help individuals engage in proactive health management. Yet many of these technologies focus on such pragmatic issues as collecting and presenting health information and modifying individuals' behavior. At the same time, researchers in clinical community argue that individuals' perception of their identity has dramatic consequences for their health behaviors. In this paper we discuss results of a deployment study of a mobile health monitoring application. We show how individuals with considerable diabetes experience found a unique way to adopt this health-monitoring application to construct and negotiate their identities as persons with a chronic disease. We argue that viewing health management from identity construction perspective opens new opportunities for research and design in technologies for health.
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The second MAHI deployment study confirmed that MAHI was also well accepted by people with more extensive diabetes experience as a tool for identity construction through storytelling.
“However, their second deployment study [60] confirmed that MAHI was also well accepted by people with more extensive diabetes experience as a tool for identity construction through storytelling.”
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- Authors
- Mamykina, L., Miller, A. D., Mynatt, E. D., & Greenblatt, D.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- SMART Technologies, Calgary, Canada
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2010-04-10
- Pages
- 1203-1212
- OpenAlex
- W1974878083
- Semantic Scholar
- 2787374e4c6134f66dcf20a1f7fb42a28bfa8f6f
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 35.06
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Education
- Keywords
- diabetes management, identity construction, storytelling, mobile health monitoring, chronic disease, health behavior, technology adoption, health information technology
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