Designing an artefact to help users make intervention decisions about their wellness

Abstract

Healthcare systems have been evolving towards more decentralised, patient-empowered, and holistic approaches. This places a greater expectation on patients to monitor and report changes in their general wellness so they can make decisions as to when to seek clinical interventions. However, findings from this study suggest individuals find it challenging to detect deteriorations in wellness, due to the vast and multifaceted nature of the concept, the gradual onset of symptoms, and the difficulty in articulating change. Thus a mobile application is developed to help users with these issues. The design of this mobile application draws upon existing cognitive neuroscience research on change detection, both for external stimuli and internal 'interoceptive' sensations. This highlights several key factors to be considered, if wellness-related decision-making is to be supported. In particular, this identifies the role of patients' top-down (attentional) and bottom-up (less-voluntary) processes for detecting wellness deteriorations.

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“…On present research project, a choice was made to use Design Science (DS) Research methodology as the theoretical and guidance support that would allow to reach a successful outcome. When analysing the existing literature on the use of DS, one can almost immediately perceive that it is widely used throughout the information systems field (Gleasure & Grace, 2016;Gregor & Hevner, 2013). DS can be considered a pattern aimed at the specification and development of information systems and technologies artefacts whose goal is addressing (and solving) existing problems (Peffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger, & Chatterjee, 2007).…”