A scenario guideline for designing new teletreatments: a multidisciplinary approach

Huis in 't Veld, Rianne M.H.A. and Widya, Ing A. and Bults, Richard G.A. and Sandsjö, Leif and Hermens, Hermie J. and Vollenbroek-Hutten, Miriam M.R. (2010) A scenario guideline for designing new teletreatments: a multidisciplinary approach. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 16 (6). pp. 302-307. ISSN 1357-633X

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Abstract:	Lack of user acceptance of telemedicine services is an important barrier to deployment and stresses the need for involving users, i.e. medical professionals. However, the involvement of users in the service development process of telemedicine services is difficult because of (a) the knowledge gap between the expertise of medical and technical experts; (b) the language gap, i.e. the use of different terminologies between the medical and the technical professions; and (c) the methodological gap in applying requirement methods to multidisciplinary scientific matters. We have developed a guideline in which the medical and technical domains meet. The guideline can be used to develop a scenario from which requirements can be elicited. In a retrospective analysis of a myofeedback-based teletreatment service, the technically-oriented People-Activities-Context-Technology (PACT) framework and medically-oriented principles of evidence-based medicine were incorporated into a guideline. The guideline was developed to construct the content of a scenario which describes the new teletreatment service. This allows the different stakeholders to come together and develop the service. Our approach provides an arena for different stakeholders to take part in the early stages of the design process. This should increase the chance of user acceptance and thus adoption of the service being developed.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 The Royal Society of Medicine Press
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/74630
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jtt.2010.006003
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