Good Alice, Omisade Omobolanle
School of Computing, Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Jul 30;263:49-63. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190110.
mHealth can offer great potential for the self-management of health conditions and facilitating health services. It is therefore imperative that the design of mHealth systems afford optimum efficacy and effectiveness. Involving end users in collaborative decision making is an essential aspect of increasing acceptance of the treatment intervention. Involving users in the design and evaluation of mHealth systems helps to enable a better understanding of the complexity of user needs and how to incorporate this information effectively into the design process. This chapter discusses how Activity Theory can help to provide a theoretical lens for a User Centred Design framework in the design of mHealth systems. A general overview of Activity Theory and User Centred Design are provided, followed by their application in mHealth. Two use cases are provided that demonstrate how Activity Theory has helped provide a broader contextual analysis to a User Centred iterative approach to system design and evaluation.
移动健康在健康状况的自我管理和促进健康服务方面具有巨大潜力。因此，移动健康系统的设计必须具备最佳的功效和效果。让终端用户参与协作决策是提高对治疗干预接受度的一个重要方面。让用户参与移动健康系统的设计和评估有助于更好地理解用户需求的复杂性，以及如何将这些信息有效地纳入设计过程。本章讨论活动理论如何有助于为移动健康系统设计中的以用户为中心的设计框架提供一个理论视角。提供了活动理论和以用户为中心的设计的概述，随后介绍了它们在移动健康中的应用。给出了两个用例，展示了活动理论如何帮助为以用户为中心的系统设计和评估的迭代方法提供更广泛的情境分析。
