Authors:
R. Sánchez-Carrión
1
;
D. Wever
2
;
S. M. Jansen-Kosterink
3
;
Miriam Vollenbroek
3
;
H. J. Hermens
3
;
S. Scattareggia
4
;
F. Benvenuti
5
;
S. Doménech
1
;
Wojciech Glinkowski
6
and
Rianne Huis in 't Veld
3
Affiliations:
1
Fundació Privada Institut de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann, Spain
;
2
Roessingh Centre for Rehabilitation, Netherlands
;
3
Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
;
4
SignoMotus, Italy
;
5
Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale 11 di Empoli, Italy
;
6
Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Keyword(s):
Usability, Exercise-based Tele-rehabilitation, Problem Software Reports, Change Requests, Methodology.
Abstract:
Having usable technology is an imperative, especially for contemporary (elderly) patients with disabilities. The aim of the present document is to examine the usability of our exercise-based tele-rehabilitation service based on a hybrid approach in four different impaired user groups (elderly people with cognitive and/or movement and postural problems) and in its context (as a tele-rehabilitation service during rehabilitation treatment). A hybrid approach consisted of a task-oriented patient usability test and a one-year pilot-implementation during which problem software reports and change requests were collected from professionals. Across Europe, in total n=60 patients were included in the usability test suffering from pulmonary diseases, stroke, orthopeadic patients and patients suffering from Alzheimer. In addition, during the one-year pilot-implementation period in four European clinical centers (NL, PL, IT, ES), in total n=81 Software Problem Reports (SPR’s) have been collected
and n=43 Change Requests (CRs). In conclusion, this hybrid methodology allowed usability data to be retrieved from both an episodic and a longer period of use, controlled use and use in routine care, and focus on both the tele-rehabilitation software and service delivery, i.e tele-treatment protocols. Moreover, both the patient as well the professional perspective was incorporated.
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