Abstract
The earlier in life an individual adopts healthy practices the more impact those practices have on the long term. In this paper we present Social Toothbrush, a hardware plugin for electric toothbrushes that aims to induce proper tooth brushing behaviors on young children and adults. Social Toothbrush does so by taking advantage of family communication and coordination practices to encourage healthy practices. We first describe the theoretical grounding of our design process, Social Translucence, followed by the design and development of Social Toothbrush.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 649-654 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450335751 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 7 Sep 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - Osaka, Japan Duration: 7 Sep 2015 → 11 Sep 2015 |
Conference
Conference | ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers |
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Abbreviated title | UbiComp & ISWC |
Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Osaka |
Period | 7/09/15 → 11/09/15 |
Keywords
- Behavior change
- Family
- Persuasive technology
- Tooth brushing
- Ubiquitous computing