Usability Problems Experienced by Elderly Users in Home Healthcare Systems
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Usability Problems Experienced by Elderly Users in Home Healthcare Systems
Several research papers have presented crucial work on the needed functionality of home healthcare systems as well as on methods for evaluating the usability of such systems. There is also considerable work on usability problems experienced with systems that are targeted at medical staff. Yet, much less effort has been devoted to identification of usability problems in systems targeted at elder...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2163-1328
DOI: 10.7726/jhtm.2014.1001