Cohort 3 student Tim Arueyingho publishes a paper in AfriCHI ’23: Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference entitled: ‘Exploring the nexus of Social Media Networks and Instant Messengers in Collaborative Type 2 Diabetes care: A Case Study of Port Harcourt, Nigeria’.
Tim had the following to say about the publication:
‘Having identified limitations in the use of technology for Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) care, as well as the need for context-specific T2D self- and collaborative care technologies, I designed a mixed-methods study to explore the interpersonal relationships between people with T2D, caregivers, and community pharmacists, and how contextual factors affect these relationships in T2D care. The essence of this study is to identify context-specific design opportunities for emerging T2D self- and collaborative technologies, and to discover new ways of conducting remote health research and codesign activities in global southern community contexts. The first phase of this study resulted in the collection of 110 questionnaire responses and the conducting of 51 interviews using WhatsApp and traditional methods of data collection. While this study generated significant insights, an empirical contribution that could not be overlooked was the use of social media (SM) and instant messengers (IM) for T2D care in this context. This short paper describes these unique findings, exploring SM and IM for self- and collaborative T2D care in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.’
Link to Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628096.3628744