TY - GEN
T1 - My journey compass
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014
AU - Jacobs, Maia
AU - Clawson, James
AU - Mynatt, Elizabeth D.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Health information management for cancer care is a challenging and personal process that changes over time based on one's needs, goals, and health status. While technologies supporting health information management appear promising, we do not fully understand how health information tools fit into patients' daily lives. To better understand the opportunities and usage barriers of these tools, we designed and deployed a mobile, tablet-based health management aid: My Journey Compass. After one month of use, we interviewed twelve breast cancer patients to investigate their initial patterns of adoption, adaptation, use and non-use. We found that developing a tool that was customizable, mobile, and integrated into the patients' healthcare system resulted in a set of surprising uses by breast cancer patients for a wide variety of tasks. Our study demonstrates the potential for health management tools to improve the cancer care experience and for HCI research to influence existing healthcare systems.
AB - Health information management for cancer care is a challenging and personal process that changes over time based on one's needs, goals, and health status. While technologies supporting health information management appear promising, we do not fully understand how health information tools fit into patients' daily lives. To better understand the opportunities and usage barriers of these tools, we designed and deployed a mobile, tablet-based health management aid: My Journey Compass. After one month of use, we interviewed twelve breast cancer patients to investigate their initial patterns of adoption, adaptation, use and non-use. We found that developing a tool that was customizable, mobile, and integrated into the patients' healthcare system resulted in a set of surprising uses by breast cancer patients for a wide variety of tasks. Our study demonstrates the potential for health management tools to improve the cancer care experience and for HCI research to influence existing healthcare systems.
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Cancer navigation
KW - Mobile health
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U2 - 10.1145/2556288.2557194
DO - 10.1145/2556288.2557194
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900390491
SN - 9781450324731
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 663
EP - 672
BT - CHI 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -
