With growing awareness of long-term health and wellness, everyday body management has become a widespread practice. Social media platforms and health-related applications offer abundant information for those pursuing healthier lifestyles and more positive body images. While prior Human-Computer Interaction research has focused extensively on technology-mediated health interventions, the user-initiated practices of browsing and evaluating body management information remain underexplored. In this paper, we study a female-dominant social media platform in China to examine how users seek such information and how it shapes their lifestyle choices. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 users, we identify factors including consumerism, poster popularity, and perceived authenticity that influence decision-making, alongside challenges such as discerning reliable methods and managing body anxiety triggered by social media. We contribute insights into how content and media formats interact to shape users' information evaluation, and we outline design implications for supporting more reliable and healthy engagements with body management information.
翻译:随着对长期健康与福祉意识的增强,日常身体管理已成为一种普遍实践。社交媒体平台与健康相关应用为追求更健康生活方式和更积极身体意象的用户提供了丰富信息。尽管先前的人机交互研究广泛关注技术介导的健康干预,但用户主动浏览与评估身体管理信息的实践仍未被充分探索。本文通过研究中国一个女性主导的社交媒体平台,探讨用户如何寻找此类信息及其如何影响其生活方式选择。通过对18名用户的半结构化访谈,我们识别出包括消费主义、发布者受欢迎程度和感知真实性在内的决策影响因素,以及辨别可靠方法和管理社交媒体引发的身体焦虑等挑战。我们深入揭示了内容与媒体形式如何相互作用以塑造用户的信息评估,并提出了支持更可靠、健康地参与身体管理信息的设计启示。