| Chinese Aged Diabetic Assistant (CADA) |
This project proposes to design and prototype an age and culturally appropriate, interactive diabetes self-management support system on smart phones for robust (independent in activities of daily living) elderly population with diabetes in urban and rural China.
Our focus is on older patients with diabetes, including patients who are taking insulin, patients who are taking oral medications and patients who are taking a combination of insulin and oral medications.
User-Centered Design (UCD) is a modern Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design philosophy and a
multi-stage problem solving process, in which the needs, desires, and limitations of the end users of an interface are inquired and analyzed,
and assumptions of the user behavior are transferred into the prototypes and tested. A UCD approach is used to design and prototype
our SmartPhone Diabetes Self-Management support prototype.
This approach:
focuses on users, tasks, and social context;
measures usability empirically; and
designs iteratively, whereby a product is designed, evaluated, and modified with real users repeatedly in quick iterations.
UCD is well recognized as an effective human factors engineering strategy to design ease of use into the total customer experience with
products and information technology (IT) that has been applied specifically to health care IT systems.
Our design reflects a profile of the targeted population reflecting their preferences and capabilities
that can be used by researchers interested in designing mobile applications and user interfaces are effective for the target communities.
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| This software will be available free of charge (as
open source) and will work on PDAs and smartphones that run Windows (not
blackberries, Palm). |
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