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Moritz Meister, MSc
| Titel | Mood Tracking & Mental Health Apps: Social Contexts and User Perspectives |
| Untertitel | International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies |
| Typ | Konferenz |
| Texte | Abstract: Part of the Panel on Public Health and Digitalization (Chair: Tilo Grenz)
With an ever-accelerating speed, we are currently witnessing the intrusion of personalized tracking techno¬logies into our daily lives and workplaces. Regarding what it is to be tracked, the trend has gone from the physiological and behavioral (steps, calories, heart rate) to the subjective and ‘psychological’ (stress, resili¬ence, mindfulness). This presentation explores the phenomenon of mood tracking: periodically self-protocolling one’s affective state via certain apps that give users quantitative and visual feedback (emojis, points, graphs) but also behavioral recommendations according to their ‘emotional data’. Mood tracking is a prominent feature in mental health and wellbeing apps which are currently proliferating in a variety of areas, from clinical therapy to the workplace.
As a psychologist trained in cultural and clinical psychology, I address these phenomena from a broader perspective than technical feasibility, social compliance or medical efficacy. I argue that as abstract techno-material means (microdispositifs), mood tracking apps pertain to core psychosocial mechanisms of self- and other-relations including affective, bodily, and social knowledge. They interpellate their users specifically, convey self-images, and enable or restrict certain modes of interactions. I overall refer to those procedures as subjectivation processes which need to be examined empirically: how is the implicit understanding, reflection, and communication of one's affects mediated by specifically designed mood tracking applications?
The empirical approach comprises:
- Participatory ethnographic walkthroughs of the apps’ user interfaces, including their discursive and visual content.
- Qualitative interviews and group discussions with users that assess concrete modes of reception and appropriation of these technologies.
In parallel with the oral presentation of empirical findings from two years of PhD research so far, I aim to enhance the understanding of mood tracking as a dynamic interplay between lived personal experience, social power relations and techo-material structures. For the discussion, I am especially curious about transdisciplinary media technology, HCI and design perspectives on this matter.
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| Veranstalter*innen | Bertha von Suttner Privatuniversität St. Pölten FH St Pölten |
| Vortragende | Meister Moritz |
| Beteiligung | Grenz, Tilo: Organisation |
| Datum, Zeit und Ort | Datum: 2024-11-27 - 2024-11-27 Ortsbeschreibung: Campus St. Pölten |
| URL | https://iconcmt.fhstp.ac.at/programme-2024 |
