In today's fast-paced world, stress has become a growing health concern. While more automatic stress tracking technologies have recently become available on wearable or mobile devices, there is still a limited understanding of how they are actually used in everyday life. This paper presents an empirical study of automatic stress-tracking technologies in use in China, based on semi-structured interviews with 17 users. The study highlights three challenges of stress-tracking data engagement that prevent effective technology usage: the lack of immediate awareness, the lack of pre-required knowledge, and the lack of corresponding communal support. Drawing on the stress-tracking practices uncovered in the study, we bring these issues to the fore, and unpack assumptions embedded in related works on self-tracking and how data engagement is approached. We end by calling for a reconsideration of data engagement as part of self-tracking practices with technologies rather than simply looking at the user interface.
翻译:在当今快速发展的世界中,压力已成为人们日益关注的健康问题。虽然最近人们在可磨损或移动设备上获得了更多的自动压力跟踪技术,但对于这些技术在日常生活中的实际使用方式的理解仍然有限。本文件介绍了根据对17个用户的半结构性访谈对中国正在使用的自动压力跟踪技术进行的经验性研究。研究报告强调了压力跟踪数据参与妨碍有效技术使用的三个挑战:即缺乏即时意识、缺乏事先要求的知识以及缺乏相应的社区支持。根据研究中发现的压力跟踪做法,我们把这些问题放在前列,并在有关自跟踪和如何处理数据参与的工作中提出无包装的假设。我们最后呼吁重新考虑数据参与,将其作为技术自跟踪做法的一部分,而不是简单地审视用户界面。