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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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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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