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This contribution addresses the development of technology for the elderly with the aim to improve their general well-being. We report work on a prototype system named CARE that combines the functionality of a digital image frame with an active recommender mode. Recommendations are chosen on the basis of context information acquired by sensors embedded in the user's environment, and a well-being model...
An electronic medical record (EMR) supports the general practitioner (GP) in decision-making. In this paper, we report on our study, in which we analyze and identify user requirements for a mobile EMR application. By relying on a participatory design approach, we were able to identify the most relevant patient data for house visits by a GP. Our findings further refine earlier results from similar...
This publication describes the analysis and development of an application for Borderline Personality Disorder patients, which was conducted with the assistance of 18 psychological experts from three different countries and resulted in a functional prototype containing those requirements. Nonsuicidal self-injury means deliberately harming one’s own body tissue without suicidal intent and is associated...
Mobile phones are widely recognized as a potentially transformative technology platform for developing nations. However, for designers and programmers in the developed world to create viable applications for mobile phones involves first identifying and communicating user requirements for diverse users. We define diverse users as those from a substantively different cultural context than that in which...
Health information services deal with repository, retrieval and make use of medical information in order to improve service quality and reduce cost. Medical staff, administrative staff and patients are typical users of such services. Behavior of these adopters is influenced by technology and user characteristics, social and organizational environment. This paper evaluates the determinants of Health...
Diffusion of electronic services in the medical industry has gather speed with the help of recent developments in the information and communication technologies. Health information service is one of these services that deal with repository, retrieval and make use of medical information in order to improve service quality and reduce cost. Users - including medical staff, administrative staff and patients...
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