2025/06/22 by Beatriz Severes, Paulo Bala, Patricia Piedade +3 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Psychology · #Digital Mental Health Interventions #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction #Media Influence and Health
paper · doi:10.1145/3698061.3726950
openalex publication_date 2025/06/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Mental health and well-being research increasingly recognizes the potential of data to support preventative care and foster meaningful sensemaking. However, traditional health data visualizations often overlook emotional depth, contextual relevance, and lived experiences. In response, four HCI researchers conducted a 35-day field study, examining their well-being data as participants and co-designers to reimagine their relationship with self-tracking technologies and health data representations. Grounded in participatory, soma-inspired, and design fiction principles, this study encouraged participants to move beyond passive data consumption through creative experimentation, embedding personal experiences and collaborative exploration to challenge conventional representations and reimagine well-being through design. The findings demonstrate how collaborative sensemaking can reframe well-being interventions as creative processes that empower individuals’ lived experiences. By foregrounding reflection and shared interpretation, this work contributes to the discourse on how creative explorations with biodata redefine our relationship with wearable technology, highlighting the role of trust in understanding sensitive data collaboratively.