The thought journal app: Designed to confront thoughts that influence sleep

Begum Erten Uyumaz; Umut Uyumaz; Mili Docampo Rama; Sebastiaan Overeem; Jun Hu; Loe Feijs

doi:10.1145/3421937.3421980

The thought journal app: Designed to confront thoughts that influence sleep

Begum Erten Uyumaz, Umut Uyumaz, Mili Docampo Rama, Sebastiaan Overeem, Jun Hu, Loe Feijs

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Abstract

Problems initiating or maintaining sleep are prevalent and impact the quality of life negatively. Negative thinking patterns may perpetuate insomnia by inducing a state of arousal and consequently disrupting sleep. 'Thought challenging' is a common strategy to adopt a positive and peaceful mindset, but requires high awareness to internalize rational reasoning. Regular self-report and feedback may support the acquisition of fundamental reflection skills. We developed a thought journal in a mobile app to facilitate thought challenging. With the app, the users can reflect on daily situations and get visualized summaries as feedback. We carried out one week trial to explore perceived benefit, motivation, user engagement, and its integration with a sleep support tool. The results showed that using the app improved self-reflection skills and visualized summaries are perceived as motivating to log thoughts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PervasiveHealth '20: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Editors	Sean A. Munson, Stephen M. Schueller
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	288-295
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450375320
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3421937.3421980
Publication status	Published - 18 May 2020
Event	14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 6 Oct 2020 → 8 Oct 2020

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/10/20 → 8/10/20

Keywords

Feedback
Self report
Sleep management
Thought journal
User-centered design
Visualization

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Uyumaz, B. E., Uyumaz, U., Rama, M. D., Overeem, S., Hu, J., & Feijs, L. (2020). The thought journal app: Designed to confront thoughts that influence sleep. In S. A. Munson, & S. M. Schueller (Eds.), PervasiveHealth '20: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 288-295). Article 3421980 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3421937.3421980

Uyumaz, Begum Erten ; Uyumaz, Umut ; Rama, Mili Docampo et al. / The thought journal app : Designed to confront thoughts that influence sleep. PervasiveHealth '20: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. editor / Sean A. Munson ; Stephen M. Schueller. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. pp. 288-295 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Uyumaz, BE, Uyumaz, U, Rama, MD, Overeem, S , Hu, J & Feijs, L 2020, The thought journal app: Designed to confront thoughts that influence sleep. in SA Munson & SM Schueller (eds), PervasiveHealth '20: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare., 3421980, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 288-295, 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020, Virtual, Online, United States, 6/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3421937.3421980

The thought journal app: Designed to confront thoughts that influence sleep. / Uyumaz, Begum Erten; Uyumaz, Umut; Rama, Mili Docampo et al.
PervasiveHealth '20: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. ed. / Sean A. Munson; Stephen M. Schueller. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 288-295 3421980 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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