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Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications

Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications

Anders Bruun, Jan Stage
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781609601775|ISBN10: 1609601777|EISBN13: 9781609601799
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-177-5.ch014
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Bruun, Anders, and Jan Stage. "Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications." Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications, edited by Martina Ziefle and Carsten Röcker, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 319-339. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-177-5.ch014

APA

Bruun, A. & Stage, J. (2011). Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications. In M. Ziefle & C. Röcker (Eds.), Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications (pp. 319-339). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-177-5.ch014

Chicago

Bruun, Anders, and Jan Stage. "Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications." In Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications, edited by Martina Ziefle and Carsten Röcker, 319-339. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-177-5.ch014

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Abstract

Home healthcare applications have the potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of life for elderly people who prefer to stay in their own homes instead of making frequent visits to the hospital. This requires ambient assisted living applications that fulfil relevant needs of the users; yet it also requires applications with a high level of usability in order to achieve user acceptance, especially when the target user group is elderly people. This chapter proposes a method to be used for conducting usability evaluations of smart healthcare applications. It includes a report from a usability evaluation where the method was used to evaluate a simple home healthcare application for collecting personal health data in the home. The usability evaluation demonstrates that the method presented here facilitates identification of key usability problems, while the efforts required to conduct the evaluation are considerably reduced compared to conventional methods.

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