I am a UX designer and
researcher who is passionate
about using creativity and
empathy to empower people.
I am a UX designer and
researcher who is passionate
about using creativity and
empathy to empower people.
During the exploration of input and interaction concepts, we are looking for a new input type that leverage Affective Computing.
We ideated a wearable sensors connected to mobile devices to track both physical and mental health data of users, and help with their stress level. This idea was later proposed to Hollomon Health Design Challenge.
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Angela Liu
Leo Guo
Tejus Krishnan
User Research
Ideation
Usability test
Prototyping
Final Report
3 Months
We identified stress as a widespread health problem that could lead to serious consequences, including depression and anxiety, autoimmune diseases, heart diseases, mental and memory problems, body weight problems, and digestive and sleeping issues. We are looking for a way to measure and lower people's stress level
Our proposed design solution leverages Affective Computing. It intends to integrate a wearable patch with a mobile app to track users’ vitals, using that data to estimate stress levels, and giving recommendations of various activities to alleviate stress.
Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that canrecognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects including emotions, mood, attitudes, and feeling.
We identified it being the most efficient and convenient way to intervene stress level when collecting users data and responding to human affects.
After conducting researches like contextual interviews and desirability studies, we identified that our design with Affective Computing should
1. Sense user emotions throughout the day
2. Determine user attitude and mental state
3. Understand what users struggle with
4. Capture user mood changes and shifts
We ideated a lot of wearable devices to track user vitals and converged to the idea of a wearable patch that connects to a mindfulness app on phone.
Idea 01
Facial recognition system that detects users’ emotions based on facial expressions and machine learning algorithms.
Idea 02
Emotionally Aware Chatbotthat talks to users whenever need and help to measure users' mental health.
Idea 03
Glasses that detects users' current physical condition and convenient to carry
Idea 04 ⭐
Wearable sensors that connect to mobile device that measure, predict, and intervene users' stress level.
We ideated a wearable patch that is connected to a mindfulness app to track user data and help to adjust stress level.
Patch
Patch is a wearable device with a smart sensory chip in it. It measure users’ physical health data and display their current and potential symptoms.
Mindfulness Alarm
Mindfulness Alarm is a mobile app that responsively notifies users to meditate on their mental health state, and provide corresponding suggestions.
💫Forgettable
Allows our tracking system and stress relief system to work require a constant flow of user data to provide value to the user
💫Convenient
Allows our users to bear this technology wherever they want, enabling them to use our device whenever they need.
💫Inconspicuous
Allows our users to wear the patch without any psychological or social burden.
Main Page
Activity Page
Alarm page
Quest page
Health trend page
View health trend, Set up a mindfulness alarm
including
mindfulness, reading, and listening to music
Alarm for taking break and engage in different relaxing activities.
User can view their daily quest and check if being completed.
User can view their head trend of a certain category sort by time.
We conducted usability test with three participants from different age groups. Main user experience aspects we want to explore are how efficiently user can obtain and understand their bio data and how quickly they can set up an mindfulness alarm.
Task 01
Set up an mindfulness alarm and follow given instructions
Task 02
Check bio data and view data summary
Task 02
Complete a recommended activity
Some users suggested that we support external web links in the app, and implement a recommendation system for readings and music.
We also learned that some of our icons need to be changed to imply more about their functions. We could also revise the content layout for certain parts of the workflow, since users often tapped on icons that were not relevant to the ideal functions.
1. Added index on the main page to show user's health state
2. Revised confusing icons and layout of certain work flow
3. Added links to external websites to provide user more activities
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Users can access their bio data including body temperature, respiratory rate, and heart rate through the home page. They can view the current state versus the trend of data
Users can set up the mindfulness alarm to remind they to take a break, and they will receive a trophy after complete.
Users can engage in various relaxing activities including listening music, reading books, and meditation.
1. We don't want users to be limited to our design. So we should add more embed links to outside websites, which provides more various channels for users to find their way of relaxing.
2. we can provide more information and resources to users that are related to health, which will help users to acknowledge their health status and solve their personal issues related to stress in time.
One user mentioned the stress index is intimidating and sometimes would make them even more stressful to lower it. So we might consider replacing the numeric stress index with more vague features indicating user stress level.