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An Improved Digital Pain Body Map

Abstract

Designing for the sickest and frailest cancer pa- tients requires an even higher level of user involvement than traditional software development. This paper reports on design and evaluation of a pain assessment tool, where changes of the deployment platform from paper, via laptop to iPad affect the interaction with the tool. We also show how changes of medium affect the readability of the output for health care workers. We found that using the iPad platform and an iterative user centered development process produced the most suitable pain assessment tool for this patient group.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Ellen A. Andreassen Jaatun
  • Dagny Faksvåg Haugen
  • Yngve Dahl
  • Anders Kofod-Petersen

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital
  • Western Norway Regional Health Authority
  • SINTEF Digital / Software Engineering, Safety and Security

Year

2013

Publisher

IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

Book

Proceedings of the IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013)

ISBN

9781467358019

Page(s)

697 - 701

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