Promoting awareness of depression with a mobile application: a usability study and evaluation

Soheir Noori; Evi Indriasari Mansor; Normala Ibrahim; Joanne Hinds

doi:10.1109/IUSER.2016.7857934

Promoting awareness of depression with a mobile application: a usability study and evaluation

Soheir Noori, Evi Indriasari Mansor, Normala Ibrahim, Joanne Hinds

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Abstract

This paper reports selected results from a study designed to understand the potential and limitations of a mobile application in promoting health awareness of depression to patients, their families and others. The mobile application was developed with a user-centered approach, which emphasized user preferences and opinions throughout an iterative process of development. It comprised medical information about depression, and causes, symptoms and methods of treatment. We conducted several design and evaluation sessions with a group of users (patients, their family, doctors, nurses and general users). Our findings demonstrate that the mobile medical application has the potential to improve and increase awareness among patients and their family members.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr, 2016
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	57-62
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509026319
ISBN (Print)	9781509026326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IUSER.2016.7857934
Publication status	Published - 16 Feb 2017
Event	4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2016 - Melaka, Malaysia Duration: 23 Aug 2016 → 25 Aug 2016

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Conference	4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2016
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Melaka
Period	23/08/16 → 25/08/16

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depression
health awareness
mobile medical apps

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Promoting awareness of depression with a mobile application: a usability study and evaluation. / Noori, Soheir; Mansor, Evi Indriasari; Ibrahim, Normala et al.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr, 2016. IEEE, 2017. p. 57-62 7857934.

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Noori, S, Mansor, EI, Ibrahim, N & Hinds, J 2017, Promoting awareness of depression with a mobile application: a usability study and evaluation. in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr, 2016., 7857934, IEEE, pp. 57-62, 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2016, Melaka, Malaysia, 23/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/IUSER.2016.7857934

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