Paper Info
Title
Design for Healthy Horizons in a Local Community: Digital relations in a neighbourhood with health challenges
Abstract
Communities and social support are considered to be important for people's ability to cultivate a healthy lifestyle. Yet, digital technology for everyday health predominantly focuses on individual use and performance optimisation. In this paper, we present how we have designed a mobile application to support community collaboration around health based on a conceptual model aiming at bringing a horizon of connectedness with health to residents in a local community. The research is conducted as a long-term participatory design process in a neighbourhood with low socio-economic status and significant health challenges. We introduce a community perspective on everyday health and the co-designed application focused on local collaboration around physical activity. Via workshops with residents and community workers, we critically examine opportunities and challenges for the application's ability to form a horizon and facilitate community collaboration around health in the neighbourhood1.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3328320.3328370
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Community, Health, Horizons, Mobile app, Physical activity
Conference
978-1-4503-7162-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anne Marie Kanstrup111815.98
Pernille Bertelsen2499.54