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Title:
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HOW INSPIRING IS YOUR APP? A USABILITY TAKE
ON AN APP FOR ASTHMAMEDICATION ADHERENCE |
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Author(s):
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Ana Ferreira, Rute Almeida, Cristina Jácome, José Fernandes, João A. Fonseca and Pedro Vieira-Marques |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-89-0 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2019 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Usability, Mobile Health Application, AsthmaMedication Adherence |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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225 |
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Last Page:
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229 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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The low level of awareness and usability of existing mobile health (mHealth) applications still hinders people, especially
patients, to take advantage of such applications to improve their daily lives and health outcomes. This is also true for
patients with asthma however, the use of smartphones and gamification, can be a solution to change behaviours regarding
inhaled medication adherence and to improve asthma monitoring closer to the patients needs. This paper presents a
usability study of InspirerMundi, an mHealth gamified app developed to include various monitoring functionalities to
improve inhaled medication adherence in adolescents and adults with asthma. A well-defined protocol with specific tasks
was applied to 8 participants, who never used the app before nor had asthma (4 female and 4 iOS users), and results show
that it was possible to find the most pressing issues regarding usability, right from the beginning. This work helps to
realize that mHealth applications need to be tested for usability and functionalities adequacy with a varied sample closely
related to technology and personal characteristics (e.g., type of smartphone, gender, age, mobile game-oriented), for
which those applications need to be prepared. |
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