Advances in DIY health and wellbeing

2016. Aisling O'Kane, Amy Hurst, Gerrit Niezen, Nicolai Marquardt, Jon Bird & Gregory Abowd
CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

The choice of consumer healthcare and wellbeing technologies has never been greater, and the introduction of consumer wearable technologies and inexpensive sensor kits means that developing bespoke personalized health devices is now possible. For example, there is a growing community making DIY diabetes technologies and the trend is spreading to other health areas where people want to design, customize, manufacture and disseminate their own DIY health and wellbeing technologies. Although the CHI community has started to investigate these trends, the pace that motivated open-source health 'makers' and 'hackers' are developing technologies means that there is a need to bring together researchers to discuss the HCI implications of this changing landscape.

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Citation

O'Kane, A. A., Hurst, A., Niezen, G., Marquardt, N., Bird, J., & Abowd, G. (2016). Advances in diy health and wellbeing. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3453–3460).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{o2016advances,
  title={Advances in DIY health and wellbeing},
  author={O'Kane, Aisling Ann and Hurst, Amy and Niezen, Gerrit and Marquardt, Nicolai and Bird, Jon and Abowd, Gregory},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages={3453--3460},
  year={2016}
}