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Development of Smartphone Based Personal Health Tracking System for Older People

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Supporting Everyday Life Activities (HCII 2021)

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With the rapid aging of China’s population, the imbalance between the needs and resources in health maintenance for the elderly is getting more and more attention. On the one hand, although most of the elderly are able to take care of themselves, the extremely high prevalence of chronic diseases makes them also need some help. On the other hand, there is a serious “empty nest” phenomenon among the elderly in China, which indicates insufficient home care. It is an effective way to alleviate this imbalance to help the elderly who have self-care ability better carry out healthy self-management. However, there is still a lack of effective interventions to guide the elderly in health self-management. Based on this idea, this study designed a personal health tracking system for the elderly based on smartphone. The system integrates needs of the elderly and medical staff, and its functions involve medical records management, physical index monitoring and daily habits developing. Design features of information products for the elderly were fully considered. After three rounds of iterative design, a high-fidelity prototype was finally proposed and all evaluation indicators performed as expected in the usability evaluation experiment.

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Wang, X., Gao, Q. (2021). Development of Smartphone Based Personal Health Tracking System for Older People. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Supporting Everyday Life Activities. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78111-8_22

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