Kilby Jess, Gray Kathleen, Elliott Kristine, Waycott Jenny, Sanchez Fernando Martin, Dave Bharat
Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Unit.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:652-6.
Mobile augmented reality (MAR) may offer new and engaging ways to support consumer participation in health. We report on design-based research into a MAR application for smartphones and tablets, intended to improve public engagement with biomedical research in a specific urban precinct. Following a review of technical capabilities and organizational and locative design considerations, we worked with staff of four research institutes to elicit their ideas about information and interaction functionalities of a shared MAR app. The results were promising, supporting the development of a prototype and initial field testing with these staff. Evidence from this project may point the way toward user-centred design of MAR services that will enable more widespread adoption of the technology in other healthcare and biomedical research contexts.
移动增强现实（MAR）可能会提供新颖且引人入胜的方式来支持消费者参与健康活动。我们报告了一项基于设计的研究，该研究针对一款适用于智能手机和平板电脑的MAR应用程序，旨在提高特定城市区域内公众对生物医学研究的参与度。在回顾了技术能力以及组织和定位设计考量因素之后，我们与四个研究机构的工作人员合作，以获取他们对于共享MAR应用程序的信息和交互功能的想法。结果令人鼓舞，为该原型的开发以及与这些工作人员进行的初步现场测试提供了支持。该项目的证据可能为以用户为中心的MAR服务设计指明方向，这将使该技术在其他医疗保健和生物医学研究环境中得到更广泛的应用。
