@inbook{40d152b1b6f94cbd977b0a058abe58da,
title = "Designing and evaluating online telehealth systems for seniors",
abstract = "The increasing cost of senior healthcare represents a serious challenge to most developed countries. Telehealth has been widely promoted as a technology to make healthcare more effective and affordable, however, current telehealth systems suffer from vendor lock-in and high cost, and are designed for managing chronic diseases rather than preventing them. We propose a novel framework for telehealth systems aimed at overcoming these shortcomings through principles such as extensibility, accessibility, social support and motivational feedback. The framework was employed to develop a patient-centric telehealth system, Healthcare4Life, which was evaluated in a user study to draw conclusions about the feasibility and acceptance of such a system by seniors. The results indicate that seniors are capable and motivated to use a web-based telehealth system if it provides suitable health applications. Furthermore, the results suggest that such a system has the potential to affect seniors{\textquoteright} attitude towards their own health positively.",
author = "Dhillon, \{J. S.\} and W{\"u}nsche, \{B. C.\} and C. Lutteroth",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-08491-6\_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319084909",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
pages = "167--178",
editor = "Hippe, \{Z. S.\} and Kulikowski, \{J. L.\} and T. Mroczek and J. Wtorek",
booktitle = "Human-Computer Systems Interaction",
address = "Switzerland",
}