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Beyond ‘Happy Apps’: Using the Internet of Things to Support Emotional Health

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Emotions and physical health are strongly related. A first step towards emotional well-being is to monitor, understand and reflect upon one’s feelings and emotions. A number of personal emotion-tracking applications are available today. In this paper we describe an examination of these applications which indicates that many of the applications do not provide sufficient support for monitoring a full spectrum of emotional data or for analyzing or using the data that is provided. To design applications that better support emotional well-being, the full capabilities of the Internet of Things should be utilized. The paper concludes with a description of how Internet of Things technologies can enable the development of systems that can more accurately capture emotional data and support personal learning in the area of emotional health.

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This work was partially financed by the Knowledge Foundation through the Internet of Things and People research profile.

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  1. Computer Science Department, IoTaP Research Center, Malmö University, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö, Sweden

    Jeanette Eriksson & Nancy L. Russo

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  1. School Innovation, Design, Engineering, Märlardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

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  3. Computer Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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Eriksson, J., Russo, N.L. (2016). Beyond ‘Happy Apps’: Using the Internet of Things to Support Emotional Health. In: Ahmed, M., Begum, S., Raad, W. (eds) Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare. HealthyIoT 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 187. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51234-1_15

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