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• Beyond Conventional Health Technologies: Investigating Design Opportunities for Improving Self-management in People with Multiple Sclerosis

  Trisha Dani, Anindya Das Antar, Anna Kratz, Nikola Banovic · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Computing in Healthcare

  This qualitative HCI study investigates how people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) use existing health technologies to manage their symptoms and condition in daily life outside clinical settings. MS is a chronic neurological condition causing fluctuating and often invisible…

  multiple sclerosis · self-management · chronic illness · telehealth · symptom tracking

• Designing Adaptive User Interfaces for mHealth Applications Targeting Chronic Disease: A User-Centered Approach

  Wei Wang, John Grundy, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Anuradha Madugalla, Humphrey O. Obie · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  This paper from Monash and Deakin Universities addresses a persistent gap in mHealth design: most chronic disease self-management apps treat users as a homogeneous group, ignoring the wide variation in capabilities, health status, cultural background, and technological literacy…

  mHealth · adaptive user interfaces · chronic disease · accessibility · user-centered design

• Co-Ideating a Digital Pain Companion: Exploring How Music Can Support Daily Chronic Pain Self-Management

  Bleiz M. Del Sette, Charalampos Saitis · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

  This paper presents the co-ideation of the Digital Pain Companion (DPC), a proposed music-integrating wearable interface for daily chronic pain self-management. Grounded in the psychosocial dimensions of chronic pain rather than biomedical symptom tracking, the research…

  chronic pain · co-design · music therapy · wearable technology · self-management

• "It was Mentally Painful to Try and Stop": Design Opportunities for Just-in-Time Interventions for People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Real World

  Ru Wang, Kexin Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Keri Brown, Yuhang Zhao · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents the first in-depth interview study examining the diverse triggers, compulsions, and self-management strategies of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to inform the design of just-in-time intervention technologies. The researchers interviewed 10 people…

  mental health · OCD · just-in-time intervention · exposure and response prevention · cognitive behavioral therapy

• VIDDE: Visualizations for Helping People with COPD Interpret Dyspnea During Exercise

  Claudia Chen, Robert Wu, Hashim Khan, Khai Truong, Fanny Chevalier · 2021 · ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects approximately 10% of the adult population and is a leading cause of physical disability worldwide. People with COPD experience dyspnea (breathing discomfort) during physical exertion, which often triggers dyspnea-related…

  COPD · chronic illness · dyspnea · biofeedback · physiological data

• Ageing is Not a Disease: Pitfalls for the Acceptance of Self-Management Health Systems Supporting Healthy Ageing

  Ine D’Haeseleer, Kathrin Gerling, Dominique Schreurs, Bart Vanrumste, Vero Vanden Abeele · 2019 · Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This paper reports on a qualitative study with 20 older adults (mean age 80, range 65-92) in Belgium, investigating their attitudes towards self-management health systems (SMHS) — integrated solutions that combine data from sensors and self-reports with risk assessment and…

  aging · older adults · health monitoring · self-management · digital inclusion

• Understanding Mental Ill-health as Psychosocial Disability: Implications for Assistive Technology

  Kathryn E. Ringland, Jennifer Nicholas, Rachel Kornfield, Emily G. Lattie, David C. Mohr, Madhu Reddy · 2019 · Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This paper argues that mental ill-health — including depression, anxiety, and other mental, emotional, or cognitive experiences — should be understood as psychosocial disability and examined through a social model lens rather than exclusively through the medical model that…

  psychosocial disability · mental health · depression · anxiety · social model of disability

• COSMA: Cooperative Self-Management Tool for Adolescents with Autism

  Myeonghan Ryu, Eunkyung Jo, Sung-In Kim · 2017 · Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This student research competition paper presents COSMA, a mobile application prototype designed to support cooperative self-management of behavior for adolescents with autism during their transition through puberty. Adolescence is particularly challenging for individuals with…

  autism · self-management · adolescents · behavior change · mobile application

• Technology Devices for Older Adults to Aid Self Management of Chronic Health Conditions

  Amritpal Singh Bhachu, Nicolas Hine, John Arnott · 2008 · Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This University of Dundee study investigates older adults' opinions and attitudes toward technology devices that could be used as part of a telecare system for self-managing chronic health conditions. The research was conducted through technology evaluation workshops with a…

  aging · telecare · self-management · health technology · older adults

• Picture Planner: A Cognitively Accessible Personal Activity Scheduling Application

  Thomas Keating · 2006 · Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents Picture Planner, an icon-driven personal activity scheduling application developed by Eugene Research Institute for individuals with cognitive disabilities. The application addresses a significant gap in accessible software: while over 20 million Americans…

  cognitive accessibility · cognitive disabilities · intellectual disability · activities of daily living · self-management

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