Designing connections for hearing rehabilitation: Exploring future client journeys with elderly hearing aid users, relatives and healthcare providers

AM Kanstrup, S Rotger-Griful… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 2017 conference on designing interactive systems, 2017dl.acm.org
Designing technology-mediated connections between patients, relatives and healthcare
providers is a main focus of electronic healthcare (eHealth). Involving future users in the
innovation and design of eHealth is important for understanding the complex socio-technical
challenge of connecting key actors in health management. This paper presents the results of
a research project on the design of eHealth solutions for hearing healthcare. We introduce a
client journey perspective on hearing rehabilitation and present how we engaged elderly …
Designing technology-mediated connections between patients, relatives and healthcare providers is a main focus of electronic healthcare (eHealth). Involving future users in the innovation and design of eHealth is important for understanding the complex socio-technical challenge of connecting key actors in health management. This paper presents the results of a research project on the design of eHealth solutions for hearing healthcare. We introduce a client journey perspective on hearing rehabilitation and present how we engaged elderly hearing aid users, relatives and healthcare providers in inventing future eHealth-assisted client journeys. Our analysis of this problem space presents a series of boundaries and barriers and possible bridges and connections for future hearing rehabilitation. We synthesise these results by developing an integrated model of the complex interplay between information, communication and learning among key actors in hearing rehabilitation and we outline four implications for design within this framework.
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