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Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
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T1 - Functionality and User Reviews Analysis of Mobile Apps for Mindfulness Eating and Eating Disorders
AU - Guluzade, Lala
AU - Sas, Corina
PY - 2024/5/22
Y1 - 2024/5/22
N2 - A growing number of mobile apps have focused on healthy or problematic eating, albeit limited research has focused on evaluating such apps from users’ perspectives. To address this, we evaluated the functionalities of 27 apps on mindfulness eating, and eating disorders from the Apple App, and Google Play Stores, and conducted a content analysis of 1248 user reviews, totaling over 60,000 words. Findings indicate the main functionalities of tracking data on eating behaviors, emotions, thoughts, bodily sensations, symptoms, aswell as triggers of eating disorders, and of providing interventions such as mindfulness, goal setting, psychoeducation, CBT, and holistic ones. Findings also highlight key usability and ethical challenges, which we used to inform five design implications namely tracking and reflecting on multiple aspects of mindfulness and healthyeating, supporting personalized interventions and AI-based ones, as well as the sensitive design for diagnosis, and for tracking and monitoring problematic data.
AB - A growing number of mobile apps have focused on healthy or problematic eating, albeit limited research has focused on evaluating such apps from users’ perspectives. To address this, we evaluated the functionalities of 27 apps on mindfulness eating, and eating disorders from the Apple App, and Google Play Stores, and conducted a content analysis of 1248 user reviews, totaling over 60,000 words. Findings indicate the main functionalities of tracking data on eating behaviors, emotions, thoughts, bodily sensations, symptoms, aswell as triggers of eating disorders, and of providing interventions such as mindfulness, goal setting, psychoeducation, CBT, and holistic ones. Findings also highlight key usability and ethical challenges, which we used to inform five design implications namely tracking and reflecting on multiple aspects of mindfulness and healthyeating, supporting personalized interventions and AI-based ones, as well as the sensitive design for diagnosis, and for tracking and monitoring problematic data.
KW - Eating Disorders
KW - Healthy Eating
KW - Mindfulness Eating
KW - Mobile Apps
KW - User Reviews
KW - Tracking
KW - Interventions
KW - mHealth
M3 - Conference paper
SP - 1
EP - 22
T2 - ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2024
Y2 - 1 July 2024 through 5 July 2024
ER -