Research Article
Design Considerations for Semi-Automated Tracking: Self-Care Plans in Spinal Cord Injury
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/3154862.3154870, author={Ayşe Büyüktür and Mark Ackerman and Mark Newman and Pei-Yao Hung}, title={Design Considerations for Semi-Automated Tracking: Self-Care Plans in Spinal Cord Injury}, proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2018}, month={1}, keywords={self-care plans self-monitoring semi-automated tracking quantified self context-aware environments disability rehabilitation requirements user needs}, doi={10.1145/3154862.3154870} }- Ayşe Büyüktür
Mark Ackerman
Mark Newman
Pei-Yao Hung
Year: 2018
Design Considerations for Semi-Automated Tracking: Self-Care Plans in Spinal Cord Injury
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3154862.3154870
Abstract
Self-care in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is highly complex and individualized. Patients struggle to adapt to life with SCI, especially when they go home after rehabilitation. We conducted a field study to understand how self-care plans work for patients in their lived experience and what requirements there might be for an augmentative system. We found that patients develop their own self-care plans over time, and that routinization plays a key role in SCI self-care. Importantly, self-care activities exist in different states of routinization that have implications for the technological support that should be provided. Our findings suggest that self-care can be supported by different types of semi-automated tracking that account for the different routinization of activities, the collaborative nature of care, and the life-long, dynamic nature of this condition. The findings from our study also extend recent guidelines for semi-automated tracking in health.