Medical Selfies: Emotional Impacts and Practical Challenges

Daniel Diethei; Ashley Colley; Matilda Kalving; Tarja Salmela; Jonna Häkkilä; Johannes Schöning

doi:10.1145/3379503.3403555

Medical Selfies: Emotional Impacts and Practical Challenges

Daniel Diethei, Ashley Colley, Matilda Kalving, Tarja Salmela, Jonna Häkkilä, Johannes Schöning

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Abstract

Medical images taken with mobile phones by patients, i.e. medical selfies, allow screening, monitoring and diagnosis of skin lesions. While mobile teledermatology can provide good diagnostic accuracy for skin tumours, there is little research about emotional and physical aspects when taking medical selfies of body parts. We conducted a survey with 100 participants and a qualitative study with twelve participants, in which they took images of eight body parts including intimate areas. Participants had difficulties taking medical selfies of their shoulder blades and buttocks. For the genitals, they prefer to visit a doctor rather than sending images. Taking the images triggered privacy concerns, memories of past experiences with body parts and raised awareness of the bodily medical state. We present recommendations for the design of mobile apps to address the usability and emotional impacts of taking medical selfies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MobileHCI '20
Subtitle of host publication	22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-7516-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3379503.3403555
Publication status	Published - 5 Oct 2020
MoEC publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Oldenburg, Germany Duration: 5 Oct 2020 → 8 Oct 2020

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Conference	MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Abbreviated title	MobileHCI '20
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Oldenburg
Period	05.10.2020 → 08.10.2020

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Diethei, D, Colley, A, Kalving, M, Salmela, T, Häkkilä, J & Schöning, J 2020, Medical Selfies: Emotional Impacts and Practical Challenges. in MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services., 8, ACM , New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-12, MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Oldenburg, Germany, 05.10.2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379503.3403555

Medical Selfies: Emotional Impacts and Practical Challenges. / Diethei, Daniel; Colley, Ashley; Kalving, Matilda et al.
MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. New York, NY, USA: ACM , 2020. p. 1-12 8.

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