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User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities

OBJECTIVE: There is growing evidence that hand-held touchscreen devices (tablets) can support people with mild dementia to manage their life and engage in meaningful activities. However, as it can be difficult to find apps that match one’s personal needs, wishes and abilities, a person-centred selec...

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Autores principales: Kerkhof, Yvonne, Pelgrum-Keurhorst, Myrna, Mangiaracina, Floriana, Bergsma, Ad, Vrauwdeunt, Guus, Graff, Maud, Dröes, Rose-Marie
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30944726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207618822942
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author Kerkhof, Yvonne
Pelgrum-Keurhorst, Myrna
Mangiaracina, Floriana
Bergsma, Ad
Vrauwdeunt, Guus
Graff, Maud
Dröes, Rose-Marie
author_facet Kerkhof, Yvonne
Pelgrum-Keurhorst, Myrna
Mangiaracina, Floriana
Bergsma, Ad
Vrauwdeunt, Guus
Graff, Maud
Dröes, Rose-Marie
author_sort Kerkhof, Yvonne
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description OBJECTIVE: There is growing evidence that hand-held touchscreen devices (tablets) can support people with mild dementia to manage their life and engage in meaningful activities. However, as it can be difficult to find apps that match one’s personal needs, wishes and abilities, a person-centred selection tool was developed, called FindMyApps. METHOD: To ensure its usability, the FindMyApps selection tool was developed using a ‘user-participatory design’ in which users (persons with dementia and informal carers), and experts (designers, developers and researchers) closely collaborated. In three short iterative rounds – so called ‘sprints’ – the users were invited to test whether the prototypes harmonised with their needs, wishes and abilities. RESULTS: Each sprint provided insight into potential improvements of the tool. The development team gained an understanding of issues regarding usefulness (e.g. meaningful content of (sub)categories for apps in domains of self-management and meaningful activities), as well as issues to increase the user-friendliness (e.g. intuitive design with instructive navigation support). CONCLUSION: The FindMyApps selection tool was conceived as a means to make it easier for people with mild dementia to select apps meeting their needs, wishes and abilities. This provisional end version will be further tested, and, if necessary, improved in a feasibility study.
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spelling pubmed-64373312019-04-03 User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities Kerkhof, Yvonne Pelgrum-Keurhorst, Myrna Mangiaracina, Floriana Bergsma, Ad Vrauwdeunt, Guus Graff, Maud Dröes, Rose-Marie Digit Health Tailored Health Communication OBJECTIVE: There is growing evidence that hand-held touchscreen devices (tablets) can support people with mild dementia to manage their life and engage in meaningful activities. However, as it can be difficult to find apps that match one’s personal needs, wishes and abilities, a person-centred selection tool was developed, called FindMyApps. METHOD: To ensure its usability, the FindMyApps selection tool was developed using a ‘user-participatory design’ in which users (persons with dementia and informal carers), and experts (designers, developers and researchers) closely collaborated. In three short iterative rounds – so called ‘sprints’ – the users were invited to test whether the prototypes harmonised with their needs, wishes and abilities. RESULTS: Each sprint provided insight into potential improvements of the tool. The development team gained an understanding of issues regarding usefulness (e.g. meaningful content of (sub)categories for apps in domains of self-management and meaningful activities), as well as issues to increase the user-friendliness (e.g. intuitive design with instructive navigation support). CONCLUSION: The FindMyApps selection tool was conceived as a means to make it easier for people with mild dementia to select apps meeting their needs, wishes and abilities. This provisional end version will be further tested, and, if necessary, improved in a feasibility study. SAGE Publications 2019-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6437331/ /pubmed/30944726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207618822942 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Tailored Health Communication
Kerkhof, Yvonne
Pelgrum-Keurhorst, Myrna
Mangiaracina, Floriana
Bergsma, Ad
Vrauwdeunt, Guus
Graff, Maud
Dröes, Rose-Marie
User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
title User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
title_full User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
title_fullStr User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
title_full_unstemmed User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
title_short User-participatory development of FindMyApps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
title_sort user-participatory development of findmyapps; a tool to help people with mild dementia find supportive apps for self-management and meaningful activities
topic Tailored Health Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30944726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207618822942
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