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Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process for User Needs Elicitation: A Preliminary Study on a Device for Auto-injection of Epinephrine

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Understanding user needs is essential to design biomedical devices that are efficacious in real life (clinically effective). Few studies propose analytic quantitative methods to elicit user needs. This paper presents a preliminary application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to elicit user needs. As a case study we focused on the use of a biomedical device for auto-injection of epinephrine to treat severe allergic reactions. Although the study presented is on-going, the methods we describe provide valuable insights into how quantitative methods can be applied to user needs elicitation.

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Pecchia, L., Martin, J.L., Money, A.G., Barnet, J. (2013). Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process for User Needs Elicitation: A Preliminary Study on a Device for Auto-injection of Epinephrine. In: Huang, G., Liu, X., He, J., Klawonn, F., Yao, G. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37899-7_23

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