Paper Info
Title
A Review on Strategies for Data Collection, Reflection, and Communication in Eating Disorder Apps
Abstract
ABSTRACT Eating disorders (EDs) constitute a mental illness with the highest mortality. Today, mobile health apps provide promising means to ED patients for managing their condition. Apps enable users to monitor their eating habits, thoughts, and feelings, and offer analytic insights for behavior change. However, not only have scholars critiqued the clinical validity of these apps, their underlying design principles are not well understood. Through a review of 34 ED apps, we uncovered 11 different data types ED apps collect, and 9 strategies they employ to support collection and reflection. Drawing upon personal health informatics and visualization frameworks, we found that most apps did not adhere to best practices on what and how data should be collected from and reflected to users, or how data-driven insights should be communicated. Our review offers suggestions for improving the design of ED apps such that they can be useful and meaningful in ED recovery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3445670
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
apps,eating disorder,reflection,self-tracking
Conference
2021
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anjali Devakumar100.34
Jay Modh200.34
Bahador Saket314011.70
Eric P.S. Baumer464245.77
Munmun De Choudhury51864123.30