USABILITY PROBLEMS IN A HOME TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM

Anders Bruun, Jan Stage

2010

Abstract

Home telemedicine systems have the potential to reduce health care costs and improve the quality of life for many patients, including those suffering from chronic illness. This requires that the systems have functionality that fulfils relevant needs. Yet it also requires that the systems have a high level of usability in order to enable their users to employ the required functionality, especially if the target user group is elderly people. This paper reports from a usability evaluation of a home telemedicine system. Five elderly persons carried out specified tasks with the system, and based on that we identified usability problems with the system. The problems are presented, analysed in relation to 12 different usability themes and related to results from other evaluations of similar systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bruun A. and Stage J. (2010). USABILITY PROBLEMS IN A HOME TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 302-309. DOI: 10.5220/0002744603020309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf10,
author={Anders Bruun and Jan Stage},
title={USABILITY PROBLEMS IN A HOME TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={302-309},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002744603020309},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - USABILITY PROBLEMS IN A HOME TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Bruun A.
AU - Stage J.
PY - 2010
SP - 302
EP - 309
DO - 10.5220/0002744603020309