Experiences in Designing Personal Health Assistants for the Impending Aged Generation

Abstract

Our work aims to address the problems of designing health assistant applications that run on mobile devices. We discuss the lessons learnt through the design of a mobile application for use by 45-55 year olds, who will be the likely users of such assistive technologies within the next decade.

Contributors

Dina Ahmad

Andreas Komninos

Lynne Baillie

Conference

Publication date: September 2008

Publication date (Print): September 2008

Pages: 149-150

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Glasgow Caledonian University

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Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2008.55

Copyright statement: © Dina Ahmad et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Conference name: People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 22

Conference location: Conference Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing