MoodTurner: A Self-Tracking Smart Jewellery to Support Awareness and Reflection in Sensory Processing Sensitivity Self-Care

ABSTRACTThis paper introduces MoodTurner, a wearable and mobile system that supports individuals in the self-care of high sensory processing sensitivity. We discuss how different aspects of personal informatics and embodied perception can be combined to help individuals in the tracking and reflecting on episodes of high sensory processing sensitivity, and overcome stigmatisation associated with the use of tracking tools. We present the design of a smart jewellery that tracks where episodes take place as well as their severity and a complementary mobile application that allows users to review and document episodes of high sensory processing sensitivity.