Supporting medical communication with a multimodal surface computer
Anne Marie Piper
CHI EA '10 Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Summary:
This paper is about the utility of a multimodal surface computer for supporting medical communication between older adults and health care providers. Research involves a field study of health care communication practices, the design of a multimodal surface computer application, and an in-context evaluation of the technology at a local retirement community. The multimodal surface computers will allow older adult patients to use the computers who would normally be intimidated by a mouse and keyboard set-up.
Discussion:
I was slightly interested in this paper. I think that the design is good, and that the idea is good. However, how important is it that older adult patients be able to interact with the computers? I think that there could be a simpler way instead of using a large touch screen surface computer.
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