TY - GEN
T1 - Co-designing an eHealth Solution to Support Fibromyalgia Self-Management
AU - Albuquerque Santos, Pedro
AU - Neves Madeira, Rui
AU - Ferreira, Hugo
AU - Caeiro, Carmen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic condition that causes a wide range of symptoms, such as pain, fatigue, attention and concentration deficit, and sleep disorders. Guidelines recommend a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, such as physiotherapy, emphasizing the relevance of the latter as first-line therapy. Usually, patients have difficulties in self-managing their condition. We designed an eHealth solution based on a mobile application that allows people with fibromyalgia to self-manage their condition and perform hybrid sessions with physiotherapists. The solution was created by applying a co-design process, where patients and physiotherapists were involved from start to finish, following the design thinking methodology. The paper also includes a preliminary user study with expected positive and encouraging results due to the co-design process.
AB - Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic condition that causes a wide range of symptoms, such as pain, fatigue, attention and concentration deficit, and sleep disorders. Guidelines recommend a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, such as physiotherapy, emphasizing the relevance of the latter as first-line therapy. Usually, patients have difficulties in self-managing their condition. We designed an eHealth solution based on a mobile application that allows people with fibromyalgia to self-manage their condition and perform hybrid sessions with physiotherapists. The solution was created by applying a co-design process, where patients and physiotherapists were involved from start to finish, following the design thinking methodology. The paper also includes a preliminary user study with expected positive and encouraging results due to the co-design process.
KW - co-design
KW - design thinking
KW - ehealth
KW - fibromyalgia
KW - human-computer interaction
KW - mobile app
KW - physiotherapy
KW - self-management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171467042&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85171467042
SN - 978-3-031-42279-9
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 587
EP - 597
BT - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023
A2 - Abdelnour Nocera, José
A2 - Kristín Lárusdóttir, Marta
A2 - Petrie, Helen
A2 - Piccinno, Antonio
A2 - Winckler, Marco
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 19th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2023
Y2 - 28 August 2023 through 1 September 2023
ER -