Title
Taking Mental Health & Well-Being to the Streets: An Exploratory Evaluation of In-Vehicle Interventions in the Wild
Abstract
ABSTRACT The increasing number of mental disorders worldwide calls for novel types of prevention measures. Given the number of commuters who spend a substantial amount of time on the road, the car offers an opportune environment. This paper presents the first in-vehicle intervention study affecting mental health and well-being on public roads. We designed and implemented two in-vehicle interventions based on proven psychotherapy interventions. Whereas the first intervention uses mindfulness exercises while driving, the second intervention induces positive emotions through music. Ten ordinary and healthy commuters completed 313 of these interventions on their daily drives over two months. We collected drivers’ immediate and post-driving feedback for each intervention and conducted interviews with the drivers after the end of the study. The results show that both interventions have improved drivers’ well-being. While the participants rated the music intervention very positively, the reception of the mindfulness intervention was more ambivalent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3446865
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Koch153.08
Tiefenbeck, V.2207.36
Shu Liu321.17
Thomas Berger44514.26
Elgar Fleisch573895.07
Felix Wortmann624030.55