<p>Institutionen för medicinsk teknik vid Linköpings universitet var i behov av att utvärdera användbarheten på den prototyp som de tagit fram för mätning av fysiologiska parametrar i distribuerad vård. Syftet blev därför att genom att använda metoder så som heuristiska och summativa utvärderingar ta reda på vilka behov och krav som de tänkta användarna ställer på användargränssnitt som används inom distribuerad vård. För att kunna genomföra dessa metoder genomfördes studiebesök, användaranalys, fokusgrupper, kontextuell utforskning och en funktionsanalys. Resultatet av de två utvärderingarna visar att användarna ställer höga krav på den här typen av användargränssnitt, framförallt gällande säkerställande av identitet och anpassning till användarnas verklighet.</p> / <p>The department of Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University needed an usability evaluation of their prototype developed for measuring physiological parameters in distributed healthcare. The purpose of the thesis was to find needs and demands that future users feel that user interfaces for distributed healthcare should fulfill. This was done by using methods such as heuristics and summative evaluations, a number of actions such as visits, user analysis, focus groups, contextual inquire, and functions analyses were carried out to be able to implement these methods. The result of the two evaluations shows that users have high demands on these types of user interfaces, the most important aspects were that the systems ability to be able to identify users and caretakers and the adaptation to the user’s reality.</p>

Institutionen för medicinsk teknik vid Linköpings universitet var i behov av att utvärdera användbarheten på den prototyp som de tagit fram för mätning av fysiologiska parametrar i distribuerad vård. Syftet blev därför att genom att använda metoder så som heuristiska och summativa utvärderingar ta reda på vilka behov och krav som de tänkta användarna ställer på användargränssnitt som används inom distribuerad vård. För att kunna genomföra dessa metoder genomfördes studiebesök, användaranalys, fokusgrupper, kontextuell utforskning och en funktionsanalys. Resultatet av de två utvärderingarna visar att användarna ställer höga krav på den här typen av användargränssnitt, framförallt gällande säkerställande av identitet och anpassning till användarnas verklighet. / The department of Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University needed an usability evaluation of their prototype developed for measuring physiological parameters in distributed healthcare. The purpose of the thesis was to find needs and demands that future users feel that user interfaces for distributed healthcare should fulfill. This was done by using methods such as heuristics and summative evaluations, a number of actions such as visits, user analysis, focus groups, contextual inquire, and functions analyses were carried out to be able to implement these methods. The result of the two evaluations shows that users have high demands on these types of user interfaces, the most important aspects were that the systems ability to be able to identify users and caretakers and the adaptation to the user’s reality.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:05:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4452.pdf: 7806002 bytes, checksum: 03f3df43afda775ba6b11c313093d1d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-13 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The physical inactivity has been indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the main risk factors for the incidence of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (CNCDs). Millions of deaths in the world are a result of these diseases, and this number has increased each year. In an attempt to change this scenario WHO has stimulated regular practice of physical activities, because they play an important role in preventing CNCDs. In Brazil, these activities are performed by health units which generate a large amount of data that need treatment. To deal with this problem we developed UCEMEPA, an environment that employs Ubiquitous Computing technologies and wireless communication networks, in order to monitor remotely and evaluate participants of physical activity groups in real-time. This environment automatically collects physiologic data, and provides indicators which will support and direct public policies for promoting physical activity. In this sense, UCEMEPA will contribute for the promotion of health and quality of life, and for the conduction of longitudinal studies aiming to establish correlations between the practice of physical activity and CNCDs prevention. / A inatividade física tem sido apontada pela Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) como um dos principais fatores de risco comportamentais responsáveis pela incidência de Doenças Crônicas Não Transmissíveis (DCNTs). Milhões de mortes no mundo são decorrentes dessas doenças e esse número vem aumentando a cada ano. Na tentativa de reverter esse quadro a OMS vem estimulando as práticas regulares de atividade física, já que estas possuem um importante papel na prevenção de DCNTs. No Brasil a promoção dessas atividades é realizada por unidades regionalizadas de saúde e geram uma grande quantidade de dados que carecem de processamento e tratamento. Em resposta a esse problema nós desenvolvemos o ACUMAAF, um ambiente que emprega tecnologias emergentes da Computação Ubíqua e redes de comunicação sem fio para monitorar e avaliar, em tempo real e a distância, participantes de grupos de atividade física. Esse ambiente coleta dados fisiológicos de forma automática e coletiva e tem como objetivo possibilitar a geração de indicadores capazes de apoiar e nortear políticas públicas de promoção de atividade física. O ACUMAAF é um ambiente computacional com contribuições para a promoção da saúde, para a promoção da qualidade de vida da população e para a realização de estudos longitudinais objetivando relacionar atividade física e a prevenção de DCNTs.