The Social Side of Mobile Health

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Exploring the nature of mobile consumption, creation and connection for health Author: Daniel Hooker, MLIS eHealth Strategy Office, UBC @danhooker

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The social side of mobile healthExploring the nature of mobile consumption, creation and connection for health

Daniel Hooker, MLISeHealth Strategy Office@danhooker

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Information is mobile

Health information on mobile devices is

consumedcreatedcontextualconnected

Health information is consumed on mobiles

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Consumer-targeted

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Professional-targeted

Health information is created on mobiles

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Tracking health through behaviour

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Tracking health through keywords

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Tracking health through sentiment

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Tracking health through location

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Seemingly unrelated information has a way of becoming useful, too

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Foursquare

Image courtesy eelx on Flickr.

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Foursquare, meet hospitals

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Foursquare, meet healthy behaviour

But the true transformative power of mobile is in the users and their communities

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Communities for behaviour change

Centola (2010): What kind of network structures spread health behaviours better?

Science 2010;329(5996) doi: 10.1126/science.1185231

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Communities for behaviour change

Centola (2010): What kind of network structures spread health behaviours better?

”long-tie” networks that spread behaviours quickly but lack redundant exposuresORClustered networks that don’t spread behaviour far, but have layers of exposure

Science 2010;329(5996) doi: 10.1126/science.1185231

Science 2010;329(5996) doi: 10.1126/science.1185231

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Communities for behaviour change

Centola (2010): What kind of network structures spread health behaviours better?

”long-tie” networks that spread behaviours quickly but lack redundant exposuresORClustered networks that don’t spread behaviour far, but have layers of exposure

Science 2010;329(5996) doi: 10.1126/science.1185231

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Mobile communities for behaviour change

Mobile devices have the potential to be effective in supporting these networks due to two unique, converging factors:

The “always-on” nature

The relationship we create with the device itself

The “always-on” nature

The relationship of user/device

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User/device relationships

Belk (1988) looked at how we “extend” ourselves through our possessions, and may in fact associate portions of our self-concept through this extended self more so than an unextended self.

Journal of Consumer Research 15(2), 139-168http://www.jstor.org/stable/2489522

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User/device relationships

Belk (1988) looked at how we “extend” ourselves through our possessions, and may in fact associate portions of our self-concept through this extended self more so than an unextended self.

photo albums

Journal of Consumer Research 15(2), 139-168http://www.jstor.org/stable/2489522

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User/device relationships

Belk (1988) looked at how we “extend” ourselves through our possessions, and may in fact associate portions of our self-concept through this extended self more so than an unextended self.

photo albumscars

Journal of Consumer Research 15(2), 139-168http://www.jstor.org/stable/2489522

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User/device relationships

Belk (1988) looked at how we “extend” ourselves through our possessions, and may in fact associate portions of our self-concept through this extended self more so than an unextended self.

photo albumscars[cell phones]

Journal of Consumer Research 15(2), 139-168http://www.jstor.org/stable/2489522

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User/device relationships

Blom and Monk (2003) examined cell phone users’ motivations for personalizing their devices.

Behaviour & Information Technology, 26:3, 237-24doi: 10.1080/01449290500348168

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User/device relationships

Blom and Monk (2003) examined cell phone users’ motivations for personalizing their devices.

“There are significant positive correlations between the extent of personalization and… enduring emotional effects.”

Behaviour & Information Technology, 26:3, 237-24doi: 10.1080/01449290500348168

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User/device relationships

Jarvenpaa and Lang (2005) outline the paradoxes of mobile usage

Information Systems Management 22(4) 7-23doi: 10.1201/1078.10580530/45520.22.4.20050901/90026.2

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User/device relationships

Jarvenpaa and Lang (2005) outline the paradoxes of mobile usage

Does your device empower you?Or enslave you?

Or both?Information Systems Management 22(4) 7-23doi: 10.1201/1078.10580530/45520.22.4.20050901/90026.2

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User/device relationships

Sherry Turkle at MIT has been a long-time thinker and scholar in this area, and wrote a paper that describes these events as a new form of technology that is “always on, always on you.”

“Always-on/Always-on-you: The Tethered Self.” In Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, James E. Katz (ed.). MIT Press, 2008.

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User/device relationships

Sherry Turkle at MIT has been a long-time thinker and scholar in this area, and wrote a paper that describes these events as a new form of technology that is “always on, always on you.”

“We occupy a liminal space between physical life and our life on the screen. We participate in both at the same time.”“Always-on/Always-on-you: The Tethered Self.” In

Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, James E. Katz (ed.). MIT Press, 2008.

This connection between user and device is becoming stronger all the time

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Science 2010;329(5996) doi: 10.1126/science.1185231

Science 2010;329(5996) doi: 10.1126/science.1185231

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