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Caring for Children’s Health and Wellbeing Through Understanding and Designing for Health Data Literacy

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IDC '23: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3593922

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Data-driven health technologies, such as wearables and medical devices, are increasingly part of children’s daily lives. These technologies help children collect, reflect on, and use their health data. The hope is that they develop healthy habits and skills and prepare themselves to manage their health and wellbeing. However, past research has shown that children, especially those of young age, have limited interactions with these technologies and often struggle to understand their health data. My dissertation research contributes to a comprehensive understanding of how children and their caregivers (i.e., parents and healthcare providers) perceive data-driven health technologies, and use the resulting data to improve children’s health. Drawing on findings from a systematic literature review, content analysis, qualitative interviews, and participatory design workshops, my dissertation research fosters discussion of children’s health data literacy and identifies design opportunities to build children’s health capacity through supporting their health data literacy.

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