Year: 2019
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: As seen throughout this book, eHealth informed by P5 approach gives full recognition to patients’ contexts, needs, desires, and personal characteristics. These aspects should not only be considered as cornerstones for technology evaluation, but as fundamental guidelines for design in the first place. This relates to User-Centered Design, that is, any technology/service design where final users influence how the design itself takes place. In other words, eHealth development should be based on research data gathered among final users about their needs and contexts of use, in order to be specifically tailored on final users even before the realization of low-level prototypes. This methodological contribution presents a critical presentation, description, and evaluation of research tools to be employed not to evaluate technology’s results and effectiveness, but the specific characteristics of users in order to orient design and development. Such an approach should be considered the “gold standard” of P5 eHealth solutions.
Source: Springer eBooks
Authors: Stefano Triberti, Eleonora Brivio
Institutions: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, University of Milan
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Università degli Studi di Milano
OpenAlex ID: W2990936241