E-Health for Older Adults: Assessing and Evaluating User Centered Design with Subjective Methods

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Author(s): Tracy L. Mitzner (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)and Katinka Dijkstra (Erasmus University, the Netherlands)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 21
Source title: Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Martina Ziefle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)and Carsten Röcker (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-177-5.ch001

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Health care related technology, or E-health, has the potential to lessen the impact of the growing aging population on the health care system, at the same time supporting aging in place. However, for technologies to be developed that are adopted by older users, research is needed to capture a thorough picture of older adults’ unique health care needs. Specifically directed toward older users, this chapter will demonstrate the need for user centered design, discuss technology acceptance, and describe studies that employed systematic subjective methods such as focus groups, interviews, and questionnaires to provide a rich, detailed depiction of older users’ interactions with E-health.

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