Itchtector: A wearable-based mobile system for managing itching conditions

Jongin Lee; Daeki Cho; Junhong Kim; Eunji Im; Jin Yeong Bak; Kyung Ho Lee; Kwan Hong Lee; John Kim

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025569

Itchtector: A wearable-based mobile system for managing itching conditions

Jongin Lee, Daeki Cho, Junhong Kim, Eunji Im, Jin Yeong Bak, Kyung Ho Lee, Kwan Hong Lee, John Kim

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Abstract

Severe itching conditions such as eczema or atopic dermatitis can have a significant impact on one's quality of life. Unfortunately, many of these conditions cannot be cured, and the focus is often on properly controlling or managing the condition. Thus, it is important to understand or objectively monitor how one's scratching behavior changes, based on medication or treatment or environmental conditions. In this work, we explore how wearable devices can support people with itching conditions to better manage their conditions. We carried out a three-phase study with 40 participants and 2 dermatologists to understand the implications of various system features and designs. Based on interviews with patients and doctors, we incorporated medical guidelines for treatment and patients' needs in the proposed Itchtector - a smartwatch-based mobile system to monitor itching behaviors and provide objective information about the user's scratching behaviors. Using the Itchtector prototype, we evaluated performance and possible acceptance with subjects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	893-905
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025569
State	Published - 2 May 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2017-May

Conference

Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would like the to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments and feedback. This research was supported by Next-Generation Information Computing Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Plannig (2015M3C4A7065647).

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© 2017 ACM.

Keywords

Itching management
Mobile system
Nocturnal scratching

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Lee, J., Cho, D., Kim, J., Im, E., Bak, J. Y., Lee, K. H., Lee, K. H., & Kim, J. (2017). Itchtector: A wearable-based mobile system for managing itching conditions. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 893-905). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025569

Lee, Jongin ; Cho, Daeki ; Kim, Junhong et al. / Itchtector : A wearable-based mobile system for managing itching conditions. CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 893-905 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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