With the rise of digital tools, the communication methods between mothers and other family members have transformed greatly in recent years. This research objective is to explore relationships between the mother's perceived mental support and care-taking tasks allocation under the new communication model and design a commercially viable information system to reduce the postpartum depression risk with the use of new technology. We propose an infantcentric family informatics system to reduce postpartum depression risk experimented with 84 families. The system encourages information collection and sharing among all caretakers via different data input methods. We then design an information system that consists of a mobile application and a smart diet tracker to implement the proposed inform...[ Read more ]

With the rise of digital tools, the communication methods between mothers and other family members have transformed greatly in recent years. This research objective is to explore relationships between the mother's perceived mental support and care-taking tasks allocation under the new communication model and design a commercially viable information system to reduce the postpartum depression risk with the use of new technology. We propose an infantcentric family informatics system to reduce postpartum depression risk experimented with 84 families. The system encourages information collection and sharing among all caretakers via different data input methods. We then design an information system that consists of a mobile application and a smart diet tracker to implement the proposed informatics model. Finally, we formulate a business plan of the system from market analysis, product development, intellectual properties to financials.