%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:8794708 %A André, Paul %A Schraefel, M. C. %A Dix, Alan %A White, Ryen W. %B Proceedings of the 2011 iConference %C New York, NY, USA %D 2011 %I ACM %K awareness social-web %P 114--121 %R 10.1145/1940761.1940777 %T Expressing well-being online: towards self-reflection and social awareness %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1940761.1940777 %X Medicine, psychology and quality of life literature all point to the importance of not just asking 'how are you?', but assessing and being aware of self and others' well-being. Social networking has been shown to have a variety of uses and benefits, but does not currently offer explicit expression of a well-being state. We developed and deployed Healthii, a social networking tool to convey well-being using a set of pre-defined discrete categories. We sought to understand how communicating this in a lightweight fashion may be used and valued. Using a hybrid methodology, over five weeks ten participants used the tool on Facebook, Twitter, or on the desktop, and in group meetings discussed the affect and effect of the tool, before a final individual survey. The trial showed that participants used and valued status expression for its support to convey state, and for self-reflection and group awareness. We discuss these findings as well as future opportunities for awareness visualization and automatic data integration. %@ 978-1-4503-0121-3

@inproceedings{citeulike:8794708, abstract = {{Medicine, psychology and quality of life literature all point to the importance of not just asking 'how are you?', but assessing and being aware of self and others' well-being. Social networking has been shown to have a variety of uses and benefits, but does not currently offer explicit expression of a well-being state. We developed and deployed Healthii, a social networking tool to convey well-being using a set of pre-defined discrete categories. We sought to understand how communicating this in a lightweight fashion may be used and valued. Using a hybrid methodology, over five weeks ten participants used the tool on Facebook, Twitter, or on the desktop, and in group meetings discussed the affect and effect of the tool, before a final individual survey. The trial showed that participants used and valued status expression for its support to convey state, and for self-reflection and group awareness. We discuss these findings as well as future opportunities for awareness visualization and automatic data integration.}}, added-at = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Andr\'{e}, Paul and Schraefel, M. C. and Dix, Alan and White, Ryen W.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2710fec9fae44d000fb45e822be9d226b/aho}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 iConference}, citeulike-article-id = {8794708}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1940777}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1940761.1940777}, doi = {10.1145/1940761.1940777}, interhash = {0ecc8a67f672948b9d0f8d19bdeaf5ce}, intrahash = {710fec9fae44d000fb45e822be9d226b}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0121-3}, keywords = {awareness social-web}, location = {Seattle, Washington}, pages = {114--121}, posted-at = {2011-02-09 20:15:10}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {iConference '11}, timestamp = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100}, title = {{Expressing well-being online: towards self-reflection and social awareness}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1940761.1940777}, year = 2011 }