Momentary Stressor Logging and Reflective Visualizations: Implications for Stress Management with Wearables
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| author | Neupane, Sameer Saha, Mithun Ali, Nasir Hnat, Timothy Samiei, Shahin Alan Nandugudi, Anandatirtha Almeida, David M. Kumar, Santosh |
| author_facet | Neupane, Sameer Saha, Mithun Ali, Nasir Hnat, Timothy Samiei, Shahin Alan Nandugudi, Anandatirtha Almeida, David M. Kumar, Santosh |
| contents | Commercial wearables from Fitbit, Garmin, and Whoop have recently introduced real-time notifications based on detecting changes in physiological responses indicating potential stress. In this paper, we investigate how these new capabilities can be leveraged to improve stress management. We developed a smartwatch app, a smartphone app, and a cloud service, and conducted a 100-day field study with 122 participants who received prompts triggered by physiological responses several times a day. They were asked whether they were stressed, and if so, to log the most likely stressor. Each week, participants received new visualizations of their data to self-reflect on patterns and trends. Participants reported better awareness of their stressors, and self-initiating fourteen kinds of behavioral changes to reduce stress in their daily lives. Repeated self-reports over 14 weeks showed reductions in both stress intensity (in 26,521 momentary ratings) and stress frequency (in 1,057 weekly surveys). |
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| spellingShingle | Momentary Stressor Logging and Reflective Visualizations: Implications for Stress Management with Wearables Neupane, Sameer Saha, Mithun Ali, Nasir Hnat, Timothy Samiei, Shahin Alan Nandugudi, Anandatirtha Almeida, David M. Kumar, Santosh Human-Computer Interaction Commercial wearables from Fitbit, Garmin, and Whoop have recently introduced real-time notifications based on detecting changes in physiological responses indicating potential stress. In this paper, we investigate how these new capabilities can be leveraged to improve stress management. We developed a smartwatch app, a smartphone app, and a cloud service, and conducted a 100-day field study with 122 participants who received prompts triggered by physiological responses several times a day. They were asked whether they were stressed, and if so, to log the most likely stressor. Each week, participants received new visualizations of their data to self-reflect on patterns and trends. Participants reported better awareness of their stressors, and self-initiating fourteen kinds of behavioral changes to reduce stress in their daily lives. Repeated self-reports over 14 weeks showed reductions in both stress intensity (in 26,521 momentary ratings) and stress frequency (in 1,057 weekly surveys). |
| title | Momentary Stressor Logging and Reflective Visualizations: Implications for Stress Management with Wearables |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16307 |