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User-Centered Evaluations with Older Adults: Testing the Usability of a Mobile Health System for Heart Failure Self-Management.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Human-Centered Design of Mobile Health Apps for Older Adults: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Pooled it
- Barriers to and Facilitators of Technology in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Self-Management: Systematic Qualitative Grounded Theory Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- Enabling Older Adults' Health Self-Management through Self-Report and Visualization-A Systematic Literature Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
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- Combining Subjective Perceptions and Objective Behavioral Metrics With the Elderly Digital Twin System: Quantitative Usability Study.JMIR aging · 2026Article
- Usability of a Tablet-Based Cognitive Assessment Administered by Medical Assistants in General Practice: Implementation Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Assessing the acceptability and usability of MedSafer, a patient-centered electronic deprescribing tool.JAMIA open · 2025Article
- Helping the Helpers - A research protocol for user-centered technology to aid caregiver management of medications for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP · 2022Article
- Human factors and ergonomics methods for pharmacy research and clinical practice.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP · 2021Review
- Untold Stories in User-Centered Design of Mobile Health: Practical Challenges and Strategies Learned From the Design and Evaluation of an App for Older Adults With Heart Failure.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Key methodological considerations for usability testing of electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) systems.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Review
- Usability and feasibility of consumer-facing technology to reduce unsafe medication use by older adults.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP · 2020Article
- App Versus Logbook for Weight Monitoring and Help-Seeking Behavior in Heart Failure: A Single-Group Quasi-Experimental Study: A Single-Group Quasi-Experimental Study.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingObservational
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Abstract
Many older adults living with heart failure struggle to follow recommended self-management routines. To help older adults with heart failure more effectively and efficiently self-manage their disease, we developed Engage, a mobile health application promoting the performance, logging, and sharing of routine self-management behaviors. This paper reports on the usability evaluation of the Engage system with 15 older adults with heart failure and informal caregivers. In two phases, participants used Engage during a task-based usability test (n=5) and a scenario-based usability test (n=10). Usability and performance data were assessed through video-recorded observation and the administration of the system usability scale (SUS) and NASA Task Load Index (TLX). We found that task-based testing was useful in quickly identifying problems within our application, but scenario-based testing elicited more valuable feedback from older adults. A comparison of the different evaluation methods used and the discussion of the challenges encountered provide multiple implications for the practice of usability testing of mobile health products with older adults.
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