Research Interest
My primary research interests are at the intersection of health behavior change and social interaction design in the field of human-computer interaction. Specifically, I am interested in applying for social support as a source for designing health IT service for health promotion. I seek to understand how social support influences users’ health behavior change through IT services focusing on different social channels, mediator’s role, and social interaction from user-mediator’s social activities. I expect that health behavior change using social support has its high extensibility in IT services field. Through applying the result of this research, health services can be designed with various social features, rich social interaction quality, and structures according to their own purposes and strategies and it will provide sustainable and social health IT services.
Related Publication
About the Construct of Health IT Service Using Social Reinforcement 1: Understanding the Roles and Influences of Mediators from Multiple Social Channels for Health Behavior Change
About the Construct of Health IT Service Using Social Reinforcement 2: Friends in Activity Trackers: Design Opportunities and Mediator Issues in Health Products and Services
About the User Journey of Health IT Services Using Social Reinforcement: Designing Social Interaction for Health Behavior Change throughout the Before, During, and After Phases in Health IT Services
About Darkside of using Health IT Services in the Wild: How and Why I Cheated On My App: User Experience of Cheating Physical Activity Exergame Applications
Yeoreum Lee, Ph.D. 