Hälsokollen - An adaptable eHealth technology for children with long-term illnesses Exploring ways to enhance children’s involvement in their own health care
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2020
Författare
VESTERGREN KILBORN, STINA
NORDQVIST, EMMA
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The aim of this project was to explore a way of enhancing children with long-term illnesses’ involvement in their own health care through technology, and to provide new
insights to the field of interaction design and children. The project was conducted
together with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. Along with
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recently has become a law in
Sweden, the request from the hospital was to create a digital tool that can be used
as the child’s own communication channel with the nursing staff, with the objective
of an increased active participation among the patients. Similar work within this
area has been done previous to this project, but they are either created specifically
for certain illnesses or cognitive impairments, or have a different objective than
this project. To meet the aim of this project, the research question What design
guidelines should be taken into consideration when designing an adaptable eHealth
technology for 5 to 18 year old children?, followed by the sub-question What is a
plausible design suggestion of such an eHealth technology, to be used by 5 to 18 year
old children with long-term illnesses within Swedish health care?, was created. The
research questions were answered by performing an iterative and user-centered design process, were methods such as ideation sessions, interviews with stakeholders
and usability tests of different prototypes of the digital tool, which came to be called
Hälsokollen, were performed. The overall result showed that the general idea of Hälsokollen, as well as its design, was widely appreciated and accepted by the majority
of people who evaluated it, including the different stakeholders. The 12 guidelines
created for future designs of adaptable eHealth technologies for children, concludes
a set of interesting findings made in this project, related to themes such as content,
design, interaction and experience of using an adaptable eHealth technology like
Hälsokollen. There are however still room for improvement and many suggestions
of alternative solutions, which fosters potential future development of Hälsokollen
and the design guidelines created.
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interaction design , young children , adolescents , long-term illnesses , adaptable interfaces , eHealth technology , web-tools