Digital Self-care in Everyday Life

The aim of this project is to better understand self-care practices with digital technologies amongst young adults and to explore opportunities for digital technology design.

Self-care is a process of purposeful engagement in practices that promote holistic health and well-being of the self. Holistic health implies overall health and this encompasses more than just physical health but also includes mental, emotional and even spiritual health of a person. For some people, cooking can be a form of self-care to eat healthily and to get a break from work. In this project we are particularly interested in the intersection of digital technologies and self-care, or what we call ‘digital self-care: purposeful engagement with digital technologies that promotes holistic health and well-being of the self. This could take many forms, like listening to music streaming or podcasts to relax or to work out.

This is a collaborative project in partnership with IT students, Berni Cooper and Nicole Border from the QUT Student Services and Wellbeing team, and A/Prof Tuck Wah Leong at UTS.