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Nuwa: enhancing the pregnancy experience for expectant parents

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Pregnancy is a complicated and special process with many bodily changes, discomforts, and possibilities of complications. Partners of expectant mothers share a close relationship and often play an important role during pregnancy. To support a better pregnancy experience, we present Nuwa, a system that enhances self-awareness of health condition and also facilitates the communication between expectant mothers and their partners. The system is based on expectant mothers' health conditions. It provides a way for expectant parents to track and understand the maternal health, and encourages the partners to provide better support. Our study results support our design ideas and argue for the feasibility and expandability of Nuwa in helping expectant parents to have better experiences during pregnancy.

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    CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2014
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    DOI:10.1145/2559206
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    1. healthcare
    2. intimacy support
    3. mobile technology
    4. pregnancy
    5. user-centered design

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