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MoodLine and MoodMap: Designing a Mood Function for a Mobile Application with and for Young Patients

Authors:
Maja van der Velden
Margaret Machniak Sommervold

Keywords: Mobile health application; lifeworld; Participatory Design; teenagers; transition

Abstract:
Tracking mood or emotional experiences over time is a popular function found in mobile health applications. In this study, young patients with chronic health challenges consider this also an important function of a multifunctional app supporting them in the transition to adult care. At the same time they expressed the need to be seen as a young person, not a diagnosed body. A lifeworld-led design approach, based on a Participatory Design methodology, resulted in a mood tracking and a mood mapping design, which was meaningful to the young persons’ everyday experiences. Photos tagged with colors representing different emotional states were chosen as the best way to represent their moods. An overview of moods, by day as well as by color, gives an understanding of the wider context in which these moods appear and can play a motivational role in dealing with a difficult day or episode in their lives.

Pages: 214 to 219

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-470-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016