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- Helle, Tina, et al.
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Combining apps targeting professionals and senior citizens to improve housing accessibility and influence housing provision policies.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - 0926-9630. - 9781614995654 ; 217, s. 300-305
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two separate apps that address the increasingly important issue of accessible housing for senior citizens have been developed in different project settings. One of the apps was developed to facilitate the process for professional raters to assess housing accessibility in the context of individual housing adaptations. The other app was developed for senior citizens to raise their awareness of possible accessibility problems in their current dwelling and in other apartments within the available housing stock. Both apps were developed with a high degree of active user involvement in processes utilizing multiple state of the art methods. The results are two well accepted prototype apps perceived as user-friendly and appropriate for the intended user groups. By combining these two apps, our ambition is for the professional raters to benefit by gaining knowledge of their clients' perceived needs and desires, and for senior citizens to benefit by getting access to a database of professionally rated dwellings. The ultimate goal is the generation of sound knowledge reflecting the needs and desires of senior citizens and professional requirements regarding accessible housing as a means to inform and influence housing provision policies.
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- Lidström, Helene, et al.
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Using a Participatory Action Research Design to Develop an Application Together with Young Adults with Spina Bifida
- 2015
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - : IOS PRESS. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 217, s. 189-194, s. 189-194
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- INTRODUCTION: Young adults with spina bifida often have cognitive difficulties. As a result, young adults with disabilities are facing challenges with respect to housing, education, relationships and vocation which increases risk of unemployment.AIM: The aim is to describe a method to develop a smartphone application together with young adults with spina bifida as an assistive technology for cognition.METHOD: In a Participatory Action Research approach, young adults (n = 5) with spina bifida were individually interviewed with Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). The participants' restrictions in everyday life activities, identified by COPM, were discussed in a focus group formed by the young adults and the result was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Developing the application the principles of Human-Centered-Design and Universal Design was followed.RESULT: An application made for iOS with a focus on usability and worthiness, done by creating a clear and intuitive interface, with a calendar function useful for example to initiate and plan social activities was developed.CONCLUSION: The method seems useful when the outcome from the project, a beta version of an application for iOS Smartphone, was achieved in agreement with the participants. The study highlight the importance of involving individuals with disabilities when developing smartphone applications.
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- Sund, Terje, et al.
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The relationship between the key elements of Donabedian's conceptual model within the field of assistive technology.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - 0926-9630. - 9781614995654 - 9781614995661 ; 217: Assistive Technology, s. 485-490
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research has suggested that there is a relationship between the three key components of Donabedian's conceptual model for quality assessments: structure of care, process, and outcome of care. That is, structure predicted both process and outcome of care, and better processes predict better functional outcomes and user satisfaction. The results in this study involving samples of Danish and Norwegian scooter users indicate that structure predicts what goes on in the service delivery process. However, the results do not support that structural differences or differences in the service delivery process predict the outcomes of the scooter interventions.
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- Afifi, S., et al.
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A Novel Medical Device for Early Detection of Melanoma
- 2019
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - : NLM (Medline). - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 261, s. 122-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Early detection of melanoma is vital, as it helps in decreasing the death rate as well as treatment costs. Dermatologists are using image-based diagnostic tools to assist them in decision-making and detecting melanoma at an early stage. We aim to develop a novel handheld medical scanning device dedicated to early detection of melanoma at the primary healthcare with low cost and high performance. However, developing this particular device is very challenging due to the complicated computations required by the embedded diagnosis system. In this paper, we propose a hardware-friendly design for implementing an embedded system by exploiting the recent hardware advances in reconfigurable computing. The developed embedded system achieved optimized implementation results for the hardware resource utilization, power consumption, detection speed and processing time with high classification accuracy rate using real data for melanoma detection. Consequently, the proposed embedded diagnosis system meets the critical embedded systems constraints, which is capable for integration towards a cost- and energy-efficient medical device for early detection of melanoma.
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- Ahlin, Karin, 1963-
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The Demonstration of a Tool for Self-Estimating Digital Competence
- 2023
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 302, s. 494-495
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study presents the results from a demonstration of a tool for self-estimation of digital competence for nurses and assistant nurses. The data was gathered from twelve participants working as leaders of older care homes. The results show that digital competence is of importance in health and social care, that the dimension of motivation is of utmost importance and that the presentation of the survey results should be flexible.
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- Ahmad, Awais, et al.
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Designing for Human Well-Being : A Case Study with Informal Caregivers of Individuals with Cancer
- 2022
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - : IOS Press. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 294, s. 214-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Informal Caregivers such as a spouse, other close relatives or friends of cancer patients can play an essential role in home-based treatment and care. However, the informal caregivers might not be prepared for this responsibility, and they might have several unmet requirements for taking care of patients in the home environment. The informal caregivers’ physical, social and psychological health is also profoundly affected due to the health conditions of their relatives. We propose a User-centred Positive Design as a hybrid framework by merging the traditional User-cantered design and positive design frameworks to enhance the informal caregivers’ subjective well-being. Our ongoing project (Carer-eSupport) will be used as a case study, and its main objective is to co-create and evaluate a web-based support system for informal caregivers of people with cancer. The proposed framework can be used for the design and development of health information systems with a special focus on users’ wellbeing and positive emotions.
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- Ali, Y, et al.
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MedView-design and adoption of an interactive system for oral medicine.
- 2000
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Ingår i: Studies in health technology and informatics. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 77, s. 3-7
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- MedView is a joint project with participants from oral medicine and computer science. The aim of the project is to build a large database from patient examinations and produce computerized tools to extend, view, and analyze the contents of the database. The contents of the data base is based on a formalization of health-care processes and clinical knowledge in oral medicine harmonized within the network SOMNET. We give an overview of the current status of the MedView project and discuss background and future directions.
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- Amirahmadi, Ali, 1994-, et al.
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A Masked Language Model for Multi-Source EHR Trajectories Contextual Representation Learning
- 2023
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Ingår i: Caring is Sharing - Exploiting the Value in Data for Health and Innovation - Proceedings of MIE 2023. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 1879-8365 .- 0926-9630. - 9781643683881 ; 302, s. 609-610, s. 609-610
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using electronic health records data and machine learning to guide future decisions needs to address challenges, including 1) long/short-term dependencies and 2) interactions between diseases and interventions. Bidirectional transformers have effectively addressed the first challenge. Here we tackled the latter challenge by masking one source (e.g., ICD10 codes) and training the transformer to predict it using other sources (e.g., ATC codes).
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