Human-Centered e-Health Development: An Accessible Visual Modeling Tool

Jingyuan Shen, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Anuradha Madugalla

2024

Abstract

e-Health enables easy access to medical services without some of the limitations of traditional medical services such as restricted access to specialists and the need to travel long distances. With the recent advances in IT, more and more people are adopting e-health solutions. However, most of the domain experts and end users who may be involved in developing these e-health applications may not have an IT background. This makes it hard for them to contribute to its development. This paper presents a human-centered e-Health modeling language, to help end-users easily specify their requirements and communicate with domain experts and clinicians to design and develop personalized e-health applications. The tool aims to provide a common language between developers and domain experts, assisting the interdisciplinary teams to focus on the project itself rather than on communication. We built a visual web application using the SiriusWeb platform to implement our approach and evaluated its accessibility and usability with 11 end users. Participants reported that the tool was straightforward to use without any IT knowledge, and notations were distinguishable and expressive.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Shen J., Khalajzadeh H. and Madugalla A. (2024). Human-Centered e-Health Development: An Accessible Visual Modeling Tool. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-696-5, SciTePress, pages 283-290. DOI: 10.5220/0012546100003687

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase24,
author={Jingyuan Shen and Hourieh Khalajzadeh and Anuradha Madugalla},
title={Human-Centered e-Health Development: An Accessible Visual Modeling Tool},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2024},
pages={283-290},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012546100003687},
isbn={978-989-758-696-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - Human-Centered e-Health Development: An Accessible Visual Modeling Tool
SN - 978-989-758-696-5
AU - Shen J.
AU - Khalajzadeh H.
AU - Madugalla A.
PY - 2024
SP - 283
EP - 290
DO - 10.5220/0012546100003687
PB - SciTePress