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User-centred design as an important component of technological development

open access: yesCurrent Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2017
New technologies can be implemented in clinical rehabilitation processes or to close the gap in health care provision by transferring them to the patients’ home.
Jankowski Natalie   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Getting it Right: Lessons Learned in Applying a Critical Artefact Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
“Critical artefacts”, the products of critical design (Dunne 1999), prompt reflection rather than satisfy obvious user needs. The author is developing an instrumental use of critical artefacts as part of a human-centred design process.
Bowen, Simon
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Formal Modelling as a Component of User Centred Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
User centred design approaches typically focus understanding on context and producing sketch designs. These sketches are often non functional (e.g., paper) prototypes. They provide a means of exploring candidate design possibilities using techniques such as cooperative evaluation. This paper describes a further step in the process using formal analysis
Michael D. Harrison   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Situating the transient user: overcoming challenges in the design of e-government systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
e-Government systems present new challenges for user involvement in the design process. Existing user-centred and participatory design methodologies were mainly developed for situations where a user is in the workplace.
Inglesant, PG, Sasse, MA
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Can a workspace help to overcome the query formulation problem in image retrieval? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We have proposed a novel image retrieval system that incorporates a workspace where users can organise their search results. A task-oriented and user-centred experiment has been devised involving design professionals and several types of realistic search
D.G. Hendry   +6 more
core   +4 more sources

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nurses’ and clients’ perspectives after engagement in the co-designing of solutions to improve provider-client relationships in maternal and child healthcare: a human-centered design study in rural Tanzania

open access: yesBMC Nursing
Background There has been a persistent increase in clients’ dissatisfaction with providers’ competencies in maternal and child healthcare (MCH). Existing interventions have failed to address the complexity of provider-client relationships.
Kahabi Isangula   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decision support tools in conservation: a workshop to improve user-centred design [PDF]

open access: yesResearch Ideas and Outcomes, 2017
A workshop held at the University of Cambridge in May 2017 brought developers, researchers, knowledge brokers, and users together to discuss user-centred design of decision support tools.
David Rose   +11 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Design of Information Technology as Design of the Information Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The design of technical product is often focused in the development of that particular artefact. However, when we introduce new technology we don’t simply replace old technology with new, but change many things in the whole context of use.
Maksimainen, Johanna   +2 more
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