KeDiary: Using Mobile Phones to Assist Patients in Recovering from Drug
Addiction
Medical Device Sensing
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You, Chuang-Wen
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Lin, Ya-Fang
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Li, Cheng-Yuan
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Tsai, Yu-Lun
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Huang, Ming-Chyi
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Lee, Chao-Hui
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Wang, Hao-Chuan
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Chu, Hao-Hua
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.5704-5709
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Ketamine is an addictive drug that has been shown to inflict considerable
physical and mental damage on users. Due in part to its low cost, ketamine has
become one of the most popular club drugs among young adults and teenagers in
Southeast Asia. This paper proposes a phone-based support system (KeDiary) with
Bluetooth-enabled device for the screening of saliva, as a means of assisting
ketamine-dependent patients to self-monitor their ketamine use following acute
withdrawal treatment. We also conducted a practical experiment to evaluate the
feasibility of the proposed system, wherein three ketamine-dependent patients
self-administered tests at least once per day over a period of three weeks.
Follow-up interviews with the same users helped in the further refinement of
the proposed self-monitoring system.