Studying Self-Care with Generative AI Tools: Lessons for Design
Abstract
The rise of generative AI presents new opportunities for the understanding and practice of self-care through its capability to generate varied content, including self-care suggestions via text and images, and engage in dialogue with users over time. However, there are also concerns about accuracy and trustworthiness of self-care advice provided via AI. This paper reports our findings from workshops, diaries, and interviews with five researchers and 24 participants to explore their experiences and use of generative AI for self-care. We analyze our findings to present a framework for the use of generative AI to support five types of self-care, - advice seeking, mentorship, resource creation, social simulation, and therapeutic self-expression - mapped across two dimensions - expertise and modality. We discuss how these practices shift the role of technologies for self-care from merely offering information to offering personalized advice and supporting creativity for reflection, and we offer suggestions for using the framework to investigate new self-care designs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.05458,
title = {Studying Self-Care with Generative AI Tools: Lessons for Design},
author = {Tara Capel and Bernd Ploderer and Filip Bircanin and Simon Hanmer and Jamie Yates and Jiaxuan Wang and Kai Ling Khor and Tuck Wah Leong and Greg Wadley and Michelle Newcomb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05458},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
28 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24)