Mobile Technologies for Elderly People

Al-Razgan, Muna; Al‐Khalifa, Hend S.; Alshahrani, Mona; AlAjmi, Hessah H.

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch032

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“…But the statistics indicate that a considerable percentage of medical doctors are elderly (i.e., 60 years of age and above) [14]. There is a problem with using mobile handheld devices, including tablets, for the elderly; using these appliances is a well-recognized usability challenge for elderly users [15][16][17][18]. Usability has been identified as the most significant barrier to the widespread adoption of EMRs since it has a strong relationship with clinical productivity, error rate, and user satisfaction [3] [19].…”

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Usability Evaluation of Tablet-Based Electronic Medical Record Interface in Supporting Elderly Medical Doctors

Salman,

Almukhtar

2023

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Recently, tablet-based devices have become significantly more utilized platforms for electronic medical record (EMR) systems. EMR is the digital counterpart of the medical doctor’s office paper charts. EMR systems contain the medical and treatment histories of the patients in a unified practice. Nevertheless, statistics indicate that a considerable percentage of medical doctors are elderly, aged 60 and above. As using mobile handheld devices (including tablets) poses a well-recognized usability challenge for elderly users, the user interface (UI) usability of tablet-based EMR systems must be thoroughly assessed, considering the needs of elderly medical doctors. Accordingly, our objective is to address this need. Three expert evaluators implemented the heuristic evaluation (HE) approach to evaluate the UI usability of a commercial EMR system that is a tablet-based platform. Applying the HE approach helped identify usability problems that elderly medical doctors might encounter when utilizing a tablet-based EMR UI. In total, eight usability problems contributed to the seven heuristic violations discovered.

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Usability Evaluation of Tablet-Based Electronic Medical Record Interface in Supporting Elderly Medical Doctors

Salman,

Almukhtar

2023

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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“…Through mobile health applications services, elderly people can access medical test results, register for or check appointments, and seek medical information and advices (Deng et al, 2014). Despite the rapid development in technologies and mobile devices in the world and due to their important roles in users' lives, there is still a lack of efforts to provide best-design experience to older adults (Al-Razgan & Al-Khalifa, 2017;Sibai et al, 2014). The older adults are not the core target of mobile applications and design innovation technology (Rodríguez et al, 2017).…”

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“…The older adults have their own characteristics and necessities that are totally different from younger users (Ahmed ALsswey et al, 2018). Despite the rapid development in technologies and mobile devices in the world and due to their important roles in users' lives, there is still a lack of efforts to provide best-design experience to elderly people (Al-Razgan & Al-Khalifa, 2017;Sibai, Rizk, & Kronfol, 2014). The key issue associated with elderly users' use of mobile applications is that mobile phone systems are not well designed to accommodate elderly users' characteristics and capabilities (Hwangbo, Yoon, Jin, Han, & Ji, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%