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An Exploratory Study: Personal Digital Technologies For Stress Care in Women

Navarro Sainz, Adriana G
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6797-5318
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1543579225538012

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2018, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
With the rise of personal digital technology pervading human life, wellbeing has been negatively impacted by the excessive presence of technology in everyday life. In the midst of demonizing digital technology, Positive and Affective computing provide an alternative approach to design technology with the aim of improving well-being. This investigation focuses on stress care in women. The female body and mind stress response is different on a biological and psychological level from men. This thesis addresses stress to care for women only. From a biological perspective, the first part of this thesis reviews the stress phenomenon in the human body. To then delve in the world of personal digital technology by conducting a comprehensive study of existing technology for wellbeing with a particular focus on stress care. A critical analysis of current approaches to design technology is conducted to later suggest a holistic approach to stress by employing Positive and Affective computing principles. From a feminist standpoint, this thesis draws attention to the lack of personal technology designed based on female needs available nowadays and proposes a model to design technology that posits women as creators and researchers but also, in the other side of the spectrum, as the end-users of digital technology products that are particularly beneficial to women.
Heekyoung Jung, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Edson Roy Cabalfin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Samantha Krukowski, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
113 p.
Design
human-computer interaction; feminist HCI; positive computing; user experience for stress care; affective computing; digital technology

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  • Navarro Sainz, A. G. (2018). An Exploratory Study: Personal Digital Technologies For Stress Care in Women [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1543579225538012

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Navarro Sainz, Adriana. An Exploratory Study: Personal Digital Technologies For Stress Care in Women. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1543579225538012.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Navarro Sainz, Adriana. "An Exploratory Study: Personal Digital Technologies For Stress Care in Women." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1543579225538012

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