TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting effective sharing of health information among intergenerational family members
AU - Binda, Jomara
AU - Yuan, Chien Wen
AU - Cope, Natalie
AU - Park, Hyehyun
AU - Choe, Eun Kyoung
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/5/21
Y1 - 2018/5/21
N2 - Family relationships are resources to foster healthy behaviors in family contexts. However, we have little understanding of ways to leverage intergenerational communication between elderly parents and adult children to improve family health and the roles technology plays in supporting this process. In this study, we examine how intergenerational family relationships and technology use influence health communication and collaboration among family members, from which we identify design opportunities to promote a culture of health within the family. We conducted 10 focus group interviews with independent living elderly parents (n = 12) and adult children (n = 25). We present different types of health information sharing and motivations to curate what health-related information to be shared.We also explore how family members deal with obstacles in health information sharing. Based on our findings, we suggest design implications to promote effective sharing, to support different types of sharing, and to enhance family sharing to build a culture of health within the family.
AB - Family relationships are resources to foster healthy behaviors in family contexts. However, we have little understanding of ways to leverage intergenerational communication between elderly parents and adult children to improve family health and the roles technology plays in supporting this process. In this study, we examine how intergenerational family relationships and technology use influence health communication and collaboration among family members, from which we identify design opportunities to promote a culture of health within the family. We conducted 10 focus group interviews with independent living elderly parents (n = 12) and adult children (n = 25). We present different types of health information sharing and motivations to curate what health-related information to be shared.We also explore how family members deal with obstacles in health information sharing. Based on our findings, we suggest design implications to promote effective sharing, to support different types of sharing, and to enhance family sharing to build a culture of health within the family.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Family communication
KW - Health
KW - Information sharing
KW - Intergenerational
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U2 - 10.1145/3240925.3240936
DO - 10.1145/3240925.3240936
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055694874
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 148
EP - 157
BT - Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
Y2 - 21 May 2018 through 24 May 2018
ER -
