Mira Alhonsuo

Exploring Digital Service Concepts for Healthy Lifestyles

In this paper, we report our findings charting the user interfaces (UI) design trends of current mobile phone wellness applications (n = 39), and report e.g. that whereas features related to sharing are already quite common, conversational UIs and gamification still play a minor role. In addition, we present the service design based development of future concepts for ubiquitous wellness services and UIs, and evaluate the concepts in an online survey based user study with 89 participants. The salient findings show that concepts that were embedded into everyday life routines and which contained clearly presented interpretation of the data were the most appreciated.

Concepting Wearables for Ice-Hockey Youth

In this workshop paper, we present our work in progress where we utilize sensor-based wellness data to benefit teenage ice-hockey players in their hobby. We created an application concept and mock-ups of wearable sensors, and conducted a service design workshop with a teenage ice-hockey team.

MyData Approach for Personal Health -- A Service Design Case for Young Athletes

Collecting a digital footprint of data from ones everyday activities is becoming an information source for preventive health care. Wearable sensor technologies combined with mobile phone applications offer an interesting way to collect and monitor personal activity data for personal use, in addition to providing information for wellness and health care professionals. In this paper we present our service design approach for designing a mobile MyData Wellness concept that was developed for young athletes. The concept aims to combine different possibilities of mobile technologies to create a tool that can provide versatile support for wellness. The salient findings from the concept evaluation show that active young people find tracking sports data motivating and interesting, and call for a unified service that combines different wellness-related aspects of life.