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User profiles and personas in the design and development of consumer health technologies

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The study provides guidance on the creation and use of profiles and personas to tap into the conceptual models of the targeted elderly population reflecting their preferences, capabilities and attitudes towards using technology in self-management care in general and the smart phone diabetes management application in particular.
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This article is published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 277 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & User profile.

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Persuasive design of a mobile coaching app to encourage a healthy lifestyle during menopause

TL;DR: The theoretical foundations and design phases of a system that coaches women to improve their lifestyle during menopause are described and a Participatory Design approach involving different groups of women along the different design phases to define the system's user interfaces and interaction mechanisms are used.
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A User-Centered Chatbot (Wakamola) to Collect Linked Data in Population Networks to Support Studies of Overweight and Obesity Causes: Design and Pilot Study.

TL;DR: Wakamola as discussed by the authors is a Telegram chatbot that collects linked data to support the study of individual and social overweight and obesity causes in populations, which is a feasible tool to collect data from a population about sociodemographics, diet patterns, physical activity, BMI, and specific diseases.
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Analysis of Regional Group Health Persona Based on Image Recognition

TL;DR: A framework for analyzing regional group health persona is designed, and a prototype system is implemented and deep learning method is used to recognize and label their food image to measure their dietary status, and then classify them into groups by clustering their individual data with these dietary data.
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Energy efficiency in software: A case study on sustainability in personal health records

TL;DR: With the aim of promoting sustainability among software developers, a best practice guideline on sustainable software design was proposed and basic sustainability recommendations were collected for professionals to consider when developing a software system in general, and a PHR in particular.
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Development of a Path to Home Mobile App for the Geriatric Rehabilitation Program at Bruyère Continuing Care: Protocol for User-Centered Design and Feasibility Testing Studies.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that a technology-supported person- and family-centered care transition could empower geriatric rehabilitation patients, engage them in shared decision making, and ultimately help them to safely manage their personalized needs during care transitions from hospital to home.
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Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The Discovery of Grounded Theory as mentioned in this paper is a book about the discovery of grounded theories from data, both substantive and formal, which is a major task confronting sociologists and is understandable to both experts and laymen.
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Basics of qualitative research : grounded theory procedures and techniques

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the uses of literature and open coding techniques for enhancing theoretical sensitivity of theoretical studies, and give guidelines for judging a grounded theory study.
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Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030

TL;DR: Findings indicate that the "diabetes epidemic" will continue even if levels of obesity remain constant, and given the increasing prevalence of obesity, it is likely that these figures provide an underestimate of future diabetes prevalence.
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Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

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