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Developing Age-appropriate Icons and Asthma Action Plans for Children

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Asthma is the most common childhood chronic illness. Patients with asthma are recommended to have an asthma action plan (AAP) for long-term control and responding to worsening asthma symptoms. We investigated a mobile icon-based AAP (I-BAAP) to understand whether children comprehend the AAP and the icons which are a part of it. We conducted a 2-part study with 14 participants where we (1) assessed the comprehension via translucency rating of the icons (2) evaluated the comprehensibility and usability of the AAP through a scenario test. We compared our results of children with the results of caregivers in the previous study. Our study shows that there is a difference between children and caregivers in terms of the comprehension of the icons and I-BAAP. Redesign or adjustments of the icons and mobile I-BAAP are needed to accommodate the children's needs. We iterated the design and concluded with recommendations about how to improve mobile I-BAAP for asthmatic children.

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CSCW '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
November 2019
562 pages
ISBN:9781450366922
DOI:10.1145/3311957
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  1. asthma
  2. asthma action plan
  3. children
  4. icon-based asthma action plan
  5. mhealth
  6. mobile application
  7. pediatric

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