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   Making sense of mobile- and web-based wellness information technology: Cross-generational study  
   
نویسنده kutz d. ,shankar k. ,connelly k.
منبع journal of medical internet research - 2013 - دوره : 15 - شماره : 5
چکیده    Background: a recent trend in personal health and wellness management is the development of computerized applications or information and communication technologies (icts) that support behavioral change,aid the management of chronic conditions,or help an individual manage their wellness and engage in a healthier lifestyle. objective: to understand how individuals across 3 generations (young,middle-aged,and older) think about the design and use of collaborative health and wellness management technologies and what roles these could take in their lives. methods: face-to-face semistructured interviews,paper prototype systems,and video skits were used to assess how individuals from 3 age cohorts (young: 18-25 years; middle-aged: 35-50 years; and older: ≥65 years) conceptualize the role that health and wellness computing could take in their lives. results: a total of 21 participants in the 3 age cohorts took part (young: n=7; middle-aged: n=7; and older: n=7). young adults expected to be able to actively manage the presentation of their health-related information. middle-aged adults had more nuanced expectations that reflect their engagement with work and other life activities. older adults questioned the sharing of health information with a larger audience,although they saw the value in 1-way sharing between family members or providing aggregated information. conclusions: our findings inform our suggestions for improving the design of future collaborative health and wellness applications that target specific age groups. we recommend that collaborative ict health applications targeting young adults should integrate with existing social networking sites,whereas those targeting middle-aged and older adults should support small social networks that rely on intimate personal relationships. systems that target middle-aged adults should support episodic needs,such as time-sensitive,perhaps intermittent,goal setting. they should also have a low barrier to entry,allowing individuals who do not normally engage with the internet to participate with the application for the specific purposes of health engagement. collaborative ict health applications targeting older adults should allow discreet 1-way sharing,and also support sharing of information in aggregate with others' data. these systems should also provide mechanisms to preselect recipients of different kinds of data,or to easily direct specific information to individuals in real time.
کلیدواژه Design; Generational differences; Health promotion; Human-computer interaction; Ubiquitous computing; Wellness
آدرس school of library and information science,indiana university,1320 e. 10th st. li 011,bloomington,in, United States, school of information and library studies,unversity college dublin, Ireland, school of informatics and computing,indiana university,bloomington,in, United States
 
     
   
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