A Roadmap of Mixed Reality Body Doubling for Adults with ADHD

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive framework with twelve dimensions to understand and advance the use of mixed reality body doubling techniques for adults with ADHD, highlighting research gaps and future directions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel twelve-dimensional framework for analyzing body doubling in adults with ADHD, guiding future research and prototype development.

Findings

Identifies limited mixed reality prototypes for body doubling.

Highlights the need for more interactive body doubles.

Suggests empirical studies are necessary to understand effectiveness.

Abstract

Adults with ADHD may use a self-management technique known as Body Doubling, in which the participant employs the presence of one or more agents as a means of initiating and completing tasks. We developed a framework on body doubling with twelve dimensions to better understand the characteristics of body doubling and discover future research directions for developing and testing body doubling for adults with ADHD. Our framework accounts for individual motivation, agent-related dimensions, interaction related dimensions, contextual dimensions, and efficacy. These dimensions show existing research gaps such as limited mixed reality prototypes, possibilities for more interactive body doubles, and the need for empirical studies to further understand of body doubling and adults with ADHD.