NDLI: What consumers want in personal health applications: findings from Project HealthDesign

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Olmsted, Murrey G. Massoudi, Barbara L. Zhang, Yuying
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	As part of the first round of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project HealthDesign grants, a personal health application (PHA) called ActivHealth was designed to provide personalized advice and tracking of physical activity to healthcare consumers. A key element in the design was a series of 3 focus groups with consumers about their needs and preferences for a PHA. Participants included 28 adult sedentary healthcare consumers from the community who were recruited through local medical practices. The focus groups sought to obtain input on desired features (e.g., design, data inputs, calendars, supportive messaging), privacy concerns, cost/value propositions, and preferences for communication with others (e.g., friends, family, healthcare providers) for the PHA. The focus groups progressed from identifying consumer needs to a user evaluation of a prototype PHA. The focus group discussions and user testing identified a number of major themes in consumer desires for a physical activity PHA: (a) ability to track a wide variety of activities, (b) intuitive user-friendly interface, (c) consumer-controlled access to health and activity information, (d) need for significant data security protections, (e) social features that allow users to engage family and friends, (f) ability to share data and communication with healthcare providers, and (g) tools to allow the consumer to plan, track, and change their physical activity. The findings were helpful not only in constructing the ActivHealth PHA, but also in identifying consumer needs for similar applications that help consumers to achieve their health improvement goals.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	83
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16174909
Journal	Personal Technologies
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	16174917
Language	English
Publisher	Springer London
Publisher Date	2014-08-15
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Personal health applications Consumer Desires Concerns User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Computer Science Personal Computing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Management Science and Operations Research Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture

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