TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis and improvement of the usability of a tele-rehabilitation platform for hip surgery patients
AU - Pilco, Hennry
AU - Sanchez-Gordon, Sandra
AU - Calle-Jimenez, Tania
AU - Rybarczyk, Yves
AU - Jadán, Janio
AU - Villarreal, Santiago
AU - Esparza, Wilmer
AU - Acosta-Vargas, Patricia
AU - Guevara, César
AU - Nunes, Isabel L.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The Tele-Rehabilitation platform for hip surgery allows patients to carry out part of their rehabilitation at home, without the need to travel long distances to a rehabilitation centre. A lack of usability that may prevent effectiveness, efficiency, and the satisfaction of patients, may lead to problems of confusion, error and delay, or even abandonment of the physical therapy. To perform the usability analysis, a set of heuristics were selected relating to aspects such as navigation, visual clarity, coherence, prevention of errors, user guidance, online help and user control. A cognitive walkthrough technique was also applied. With the results of the analysis, the design and implementation of improvements were performed. The web interfaces of the Tele-Rehabilitation platform were evaluated once again and compared with the baseline to ensure there was an improvement in usability.
AB - The Tele-Rehabilitation platform for hip surgery allows patients to carry out part of their rehabilitation at home, without the need to travel long distances to a rehabilitation centre. A lack of usability that may prevent effectiveness, efficiency, and the satisfaction of patients, may lead to problems of confusion, error and delay, or even abandonment of the physical therapy. To perform the usability analysis, a set of heuristics were selected relating to aspects such as navigation, visual clarity, coherence, prevention of errors, user guidance, online help and user control. A cognitive walkthrough technique was also applied. With the results of the analysis, the design and implementation of improvements were performed. The web interfaces of the Tele-Rehabilitation platform were evaluated once again and compared with the baseline to ensure there was an improvement in usability.
KW - Cognitive walkthrough evaluation
KW - Heuristic evaluation
KW - Hip surgery
KW - Tele-rehabilitation
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Usability evaluation
KW - Web user interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049630398&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94334-3_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94334-3_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049630398
SN - 9783319943336
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 197
EP - 209
BT - Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction - Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2018
A2 - Nunes, Isabel L.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2018
Y2 - 21 July 2018 through 25 July 2018
ER -