Introducing the ambivalent socialiser

Ploderer, Bernd; Smith, Wally; Howard, Steve; Pearce, Jon; Borland, Ron

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208613

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“…In our review of 92 HCI and health behavior change papers we found that there were very few studies designing technology to support smoking cessation, i.e. [4,16,25,28,29,30,34,35,41]. Within these, we did not find any designs created through participatory practices, such as focus groups and design workshops.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Other HCI research studies have created apps with a variety of focuses, in order to support people in quitting smoking, but mostly as targeted materials. Ploderer et al [28,29,30] focused their research on understanding social support amongst peers to inform the design of a "Distract Me" app for mobile phones. Valdivieso-López et al [41] focused on providing "healthy games" in a mobile app for teenagers.…”

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“…Studies of different online smoking cessation groups give understanding of the patterns of posting and responses between people trying to quit [24,29,42,44]. Ploderer et al [27] found that some individuals who participate in Facebook groups take on leadership roles to support others, depending on their own quitting stage.…”

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Understanding Individual Differences for Tailored Smoking Cessation Apps

Paay

Kjeldskov

Skov

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Finding ways to help people quit smoking is a high priority in health behavior change research. Recent HCI studies involving technologies using specific quitting techniques such as social support and SMS messaging to help people quit have reported some success. Early studies using computer generated print material report significant success of tailored versus non-tailored material, however, there is limited understanding on what aspects of digitally delivered quitting assistance should be tailored and how. To address this, we have conducted an empirical investigation with smokers to identify perceived importance of different types of help when quitting and the potential role of technology in providing such help. We found that people are highly individual in their approach to quitting and the kind of help they regard as relevant to their situation. Our contribution is a collection of empirically derived themes for tailoring smoking cessation apps to individual quitting needs.

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Understanding Individual Differences for Tailored Smoking Cessation Apps

Paay

Kjeldskov

Skov

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…One approach to engage users in between these two stages of behaviour change is to let them remain anonymous. As suggested by studies of social media (Ploderer, et al, 2012), these users can share information anonymously or they purely read information from other users without sharing their own information. Readers often get the information they seek from other people's content and hence they do not feel a need to share their own personal content (Preece, et al, 2004).…”

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Things you don't want to know about yourself

Ploderer

Smith

Howard

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference

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Technologies that facilitate the collection and sharing of personal information can feed people's desire for enhanced self-knowledge and help them to change their behaviour, yet for various reasons people can also be reluctant to use such technologies. This paper explores this tension through an interview study in the context of smoking cessation. Our findings show that smokers and recent ex-smokers were ambivalent about their behaviour change as well as about collecting personal information through technology and sharing it with other users. We close with a summary of three challenges emerging from such ambivalence and directions to address them.

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“…We conducted several rounds of workshops with technology designers, smokers, and smoking cessation counselors to generate design ideas. Mock-ups of emerging elements were produced and evaluated in interviews with smokers [28,29], leading eventually to the design of the DistractMe app. Also following a research through ,design approach, the app was evaluated in a naturalistic setting to understand whether and how people adopt and use it in practice.…”

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A Mobile App Offering Distractions and Tips to Cope With Cigarette Craving: A Qualitative Study

Ploderer¹,

Smith²,

Pearce³

et al. 2014

JMIR mHealth uHealth

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BackgroundDespite considerable effort, most smokers relapse within a few months after quitting due to cigarette craving. The widespread adoption of mobile phones presents new opportunities to provide support during attempts to quit.ObjectiveTo design and pilot a mobile app "DistractMe" to enable quitters to access and share distractions and tips to cope with cigarette cravings.MethodsA qualitative study with 14 smokers who used DistractMe on their mobiles during the first weeks of their quit attempt. Based on interviews, diaries, and log data, we examined how the app supported quitting strategies.ResultsThree distinct techniques of coping when using DistractMe were identified: diversion, avoidance, and displacement. We further identified three forms of engagement with tips for coping: preparation, fortification, and confrontation. Overall, strategies to prevent cravings and their effects (avoidance, displacement, preparation, and fortification) were more common than immediate coping strategies (diversion and confrontation). Tips for coping were more commonly used than distractions to cope with cravings, because they helped to fortify the quit attempt and provided opportunities to connect with other users of the application. However, distractions were important to attract new users and to facilitate content sharing.ConclusionsBased on the qualitative results, we recommend that mobile phone-based interventions focus on tips shared by peers and frequent content updates. Apps also require testing with larger groups of users to assess whether they can be self-sustaining.

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Introducing the ambivalent socialiser

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Understanding Individual Differences for Tailored Smoking Cessation Apps

Understanding Individual Differences for Tailored Smoking Cessation Apps

Things you don't want to know about yourself

A Mobile App Offering Distractions and Tips to Cope With Cigarette Craving: A Qualitative Study

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