Designing Socially Acceptable Light Therapy Glasses for Self-managing Seasonal Affective Disorder

TY - GEN

T1 - Designing Socially Acceptable Light Therapy Glasses for Self-managing Seasonal Affective Disorder

AU - Nordstrøm Rasmussen, Christian

AU - Pakanen, Minna Anneli

AU - Petersen, Marianne Graves

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - This paper presents an autobiographical design process aiming towards aesthetically pleasing light-therapy device that can be augmented on the body and in the everyday life of the wearer. The design (fig. 1) is meant for easing seasonal affective disorder symptoms through longer and less bright light therapy sessions (e.g., 2 hours with max 2500 Lux brightness) than with typical light box. The glasses were chosen as a formfactor as they allow user to accomplish other tasks, such as eating breakfast, commuting, or working while on a light therapy. The resulting design is moderately small and easy to integrate into everyday life through classical eye-glasses look and adjustable lighting output. First author's initial experiences in real-life use, however, indicate that the design is not completely socially acceptable as light output puts him too much on display.

AB - This paper presents an autobiographical design process aiming towards aesthetically pleasing light-therapy device that can be augmented on the body and in the everyday life of the wearer. The design (fig. 1) is meant for easing seasonal affective disorder symptoms through longer and less bright light therapy sessions (e.g., 2 hours with max 2500 Lux brightness) than with typical light box. The glasses were chosen as a formfactor as they allow user to accomplish other tasks, such as eating breakfast, commuting, or working while on a light therapy. The resulting design is moderately small and easy to integrate into everyday life through classical eye-glasses look and adjustable lighting output. First author's initial experiences in real-life use, however, indicate that the design is not completely socially acceptable as light output puts him too much on display.

KW - Autobiographical design

KW - Seasonal Affective Disorder

KW - Self-management

KW - Ultra-personalization

KW - Wearable

KW - light therapy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111064075&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3458709.3458995

DO - 10.1145/3458709.3458995

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 307

EP - 312

BT - Proceedings - AHs 2021

A2 - Häkkilä, Jonna

A2 - Lopes, Pedro

A2 - Kosch, Thomas

A2 - Nishida, Jun

A2 - Strohmeier, Paul

A2 - Abdelrahman, Yomna

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

T2 - Augmented Humans International Conference

Y2 - 22 February 2021 through 24 February 2021

ER -