Beyond Counting Blessings: Tracing the Evolution of Gratitude Practices and Technology Needs

2026-09-18

AI Summary

研究通过访谈17位长期实践感恩的成年人，提出适应性感恩实践模型，以理解并支持人们在不同生活情境下对感恩技术的需求变化。

Abstract

Gratitude technologies support well-being by prompting reflection on what people appreciate. But gratitude does not serve the same purpose in every circumstance: as life situations change, so does what people seek from it, and whether it feels appropriate at all. To understand how technology can adapt to and support such shifts, we conducted retrospective, artifact-elicitation interviews with 17 adults who had practiced gratitude for one to fifteen years. Participants' appraisals of their situations shaped what they needed, yielding six recurring practice patterns, including a boundary where gratitude felt forced. We contribute the Adaptive Gratitude Practice Model, which explains how appraisals shifted even within the same life situation, how participants adapted activities, modalities, and rhythms, lapsed under competing demands or emotional unreadiness, and resumed when gratitude again felt useful. Additionally, we derive design implications for situated support, self-understanding through past records, and relational care with changing life situations.

Problem

• Gratitude
• Life Situations
• Technology Adaptation
• Well-being

Innovation

• Adaptive Gratitude Practice Model
• situated support
• self-understanding
• relational care