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Title:
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DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING AND TESTING EXPERIENTIAL MULTI-USER VIRTUAL COMMUNITY WITH MS-PATIENS |
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Author(s):
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Anssi Jääskeläinen , Kari Heikkinen |
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ISBN:
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ISSN: 1645-7641 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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V V,2 |
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Keywords:
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Multiple sclerosis, Experiential Virtual community, Multi-User, Activating, Regular exercising,
Experience Economy |
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Type:
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Journal Paper |
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First Page:
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147 |
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Last Page:
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164 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Lives of the MS-patients can be lonesome and a web-based experiential virtual community could enable
both better social inclusion and better daily life. In this paper such a virtual community for MS-patients
with professional- and peer support is presented. The motivation of the paper is to extend the meaning of
independent physical and mental practicing as a part of occupational therapy and thus promote the
quality of life of MS-patients. This paper introduces a virtual community called Activator that is built on
user and organisational requirements and was tested by two different pilot groups formed from MSpatients.
Thus MS-disease cause variable symptoms, the design- and implementation process for such a
challenging target group was not straightforward. However the results indicated that the developed
Activator achieved the objectives, the perception of the MS-patients was appropriate and the Activator
satisfied all organisational requirements. In this paper, a further study on experience economy was
conducted in order to find more exact design and implementation guidelines. It seems that integrating
software engineering and experience economy metrics is a promising path for enabling social inclusion
and better quality of life for marginalised people. |
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