TY - GEN
T1 - A Usability Evaluation of Diabetes Mobile Applications
AU - Hsieh, Meng Hsueh
AU - Chen, Yu Ching
AU - Ho, Chun Heng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Technology has been demonstrated to have positive impact on diabetes self-care while usability of applications in diabetes self-care remains to be explored. Evidence-based study on usability is needed to justify the adoption of health information systems for diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the usability of three existing mobile applications for diabetes self-care. This study assessed the usability of the diabetes applications in terms of usability testing. A total of 30 participants (15 men and 15 women) with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in the usability evaluation. The participants had a mean age of 60.03 years (SD = 8.92). The participants were first time users of the three applications to be assessed. After completing a set of three task scenarios, participants evaluated the application with System Usability Scale (SUS). When operating the applications, participants were instructed to follow think-aloud protocol. The results showed that the mean SUS score of App 3 was significantly higher than scores of App 1 and App 2. No significant effect of gender on the SUS scores was found. Taken together, high SUS score, presented screenshots of the operation process, and pros identified by the participants during the think-aloud protocol serve as the proxy to design diabetes self-care applications attaining higher level of usability.
AB - Technology has been demonstrated to have positive impact on diabetes self-care while usability of applications in diabetes self-care remains to be explored. Evidence-based study on usability is needed to justify the adoption of health information systems for diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the usability of three existing mobile applications for diabetes self-care. This study assessed the usability of the diabetes applications in terms of usability testing. A total of 30 participants (15 men and 15 women) with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in the usability evaluation. The participants had a mean age of 60.03 years (SD = 8.92). The participants were first time users of the three applications to be assessed. After completing a set of three task scenarios, participants evaluated the application with System Usability Scale (SUS). When operating the applications, participants were instructed to follow think-aloud protocol. The results showed that the mean SUS score of App 3 was significantly higher than scores of App 1 and App 2. No significant effect of gender on the SUS scores was found. Taken together, high SUS score, presented screenshots of the operation process, and pros identified by the participants during the think-aloud protocol serve as the proxy to design diabetes self-care applications attaining higher level of usability.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-22636-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-22636-7_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069863269
SN - 9783030226350
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 3
EP - 15
BT - Human-Computer Interaction. Design Practice in Contemporary Societies - Thematic Area, HCI 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Kurosu, Masaaki
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Thematic Area on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2019
Y2 - 26 July 2019 through 31 July 2019
ER -