Note: Assessing Cancer Patient Usability of a Mobile Distress Screening App

Alyssa Donawa; Christian Powell; Rong Wang; Ming Yuan Chih; Eliah Aronoff-Spencer; Corey E. Baker

doi:10.1145/3530190.3534833

Note: Assessing Cancer Patient Usability of a Mobile Distress Screening App

Alyssa Donawa, Christian Powell, Rong Wang, Ming Yuan Chih, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, Corey E. Baker

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Abstract

Despite the increase of accessibility and availability of technology in recent years, equality and access to health-related technology remains limited to certain demographics. In particular, patients who are older or from rural communities represent a large segment of people who are currently not utilizing electronic health solutions; and are considered medically underserved. Rural communities commonly have a higher rate of chronic disease and reduced access to providers; therefore, rural patients could benefit from the adoption of electronic health solutions such as mobile health apps. This pilot study explores the usability of the mobile iOS application, Assuage; designed for remote symptom monitoring in rural cancer patients and built using Apple's ResearchKit, CareKit, and HealthKit frameworks. Two different interfaces for reporting symptoms are assessed using the System Usability Scale by fifteen (15) current and/or post surgery cancer patients.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2022
Pages	643-649
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450393478
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534833
State	Published - Jun 29 2022
Event	4th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Jun 29 2022 → Jul 1 2022

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	Par F180472

Conference

Conference	4th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/29/22 → 7/1/22

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© 2022 ACM.

Keywords

mobile applications
mobile health
remote patient monitoring
usability testing
user experience design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Donawa, A., Powell, C., Wang, R., Chih, M. Y., Aronoff-Spencer, E., & Baker, C. E. (2022). Note: Assessing Cancer Patient Usability of a Mobile Distress Screening App. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2022 (pp. 643-649). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Par F180472). https://doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534833

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Note: Assessing Cancer Patient Usability of a Mobile Distress Screening App. / Donawa, Alyssa; Powell, Christian; Wang, Rong et al.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2022. 2022. p. 643-649 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Par F180472).

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