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| author | Li, Na Wu, Chuhao Zhou, Hongyang Yi, Huiran Wang, Xuefei Cai, Jie Fu, Xinyi Carroll, John |
| author_facet | Li, Na Wu, Chuhao Zhou, Hongyang Yi, Huiran Wang, Xuefei Cai, Jie Fu, Xinyi Carroll, John |
| contents | With growing awareness of long-term health and wellness, everyday body management has become a widespread practice. Social media platforms and health-related applications offer abundant information for those pursuing healthier lifestyles and more positive body images. While prior Human-Computer Interaction research has focused extensively on technology-mediated health interventions, the user-initiated practices of browsing and evaluating body management information remain underexplored. In this paper, we study a female-dominant social media platform in China to examine how users seek such information and how it shapes their lifestyle choices. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 users, we identify factors including consumerism, poster popularity, and perceived authenticity that influence decision-making, alongside challenges such as discerning reliable methods and managing body anxiety triggered by social media. We contribute insights into how content and media formats interact to shape users' information evaluation, and we outline design implications for supporting more reliable and healthy engagements with body management information. |
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| spellingShingle | Body Management Information Practices on a Female-dominant Platform Li, Na Wu, Chuhao Zhou, Hongyang Yi, Huiran Wang, Xuefei Cai, Jie Fu, Xinyi Carroll, John Human-Computer Interaction With growing awareness of long-term health and wellness, everyday body management has become a widespread practice. Social media platforms and health-related applications offer abundant information for those pursuing healthier lifestyles and more positive body images. While prior Human-Computer Interaction research has focused extensively on technology-mediated health interventions, the user-initiated practices of browsing and evaluating body management information remain underexplored. In this paper, we study a female-dominant social media platform in China to examine how users seek such information and how it shapes their lifestyle choices. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 users, we identify factors including consumerism, poster popularity, and perceived authenticity that influence decision-making, alongside challenges such as discerning reliable methods and managing body anxiety triggered by social media. We contribute insights into how content and media formats interact to shape users' information evaluation, and we outline design implications for supporting more reliable and healthy engagements with body management information. |
| title | Body Management Information Practices on a Female-dominant Platform |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22942 |