Taking Mental Health & Well-Being to the Streets: An Exploratory Evaluation of In-Vehicle Interventions in the Wild

Koch, Kevin; Tiefenbeck, Verena; Liu, Shu; Berger, Thomas; Fleisch, Elgar; Wortmann, Felix (11 May 2021). Taking Mental Health & Well-Being to the Streets: An Exploratory Evaluation of In-Vehicle Interventions in the Wild. In: CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15). New York, NY, USA: ACM 10.1145/3411764.3446865

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The increasing number of mental disorders worldwide calls for novel types of prevention measures. Given the number of commuters who spend a substantial amount of time on the road, the car offers an opportune environment. This paper presents the first in-vehicle intervention study affecting mental health and well-being on public roads. We designed and implemented two in-vehicle interventions based on proven psychotherapy interventions. Whereas the frist intervention uses mindfulness exercises while driving, the second intervention induces positive emotions through music. Ten ordinary and healthy commuters completed 313 of these interventions on their daily drives over two months. We collected drivers’ immediate and post-driving feedback for each intervention and conducted interviews with the drivers after the end of the study. The results show that both interventions have improved drivers’ well-being. While the participants rated the music intervention very positively, the reception of the mindfulness intervention was more ambivalent.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

UniBE Contributor:

Berger, Thomas (B)

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISBN:

978-1-4503-8096-6

Publisher:

ACM

Language:

English

Submitter:

Melanie Best

Date Deposited:

01 Feb 2022 11:12

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1145/3411764.3446865

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/164124

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/164124

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