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- ItemChallenges in presenting categories of symptoms in a home health care system for cancer patients.(2006-06-16) Ruland, Cornelia M; Slaughter, Laura; Kaufmann, David; Andersen, RoarWe investigated how patients use a symptom selection tool developed for use within Web CHOICE an Internet based support system for cancer patients This tool allows patients to browse a classification system that includes over 100 symptoms and select the symptoms they experience under the appropriate category During the design process it became apparent that this structure presents considerable challenges to patients There is a need to 1 provide more flexible views of symptom categories 2 display relationships between symptoms and 3 make use of limited screen space The first phase of usability testing has also shown a need for better visualization tools for viewing the symptom classification
- ItemChildren's contributions to designing a communication tool for children with cancer.(2007-10-03) Ruland, Cornelia M; Slaughter, Laura; Starren, Justin; Vatne, Torun M; Moe, Elisabeth YIn this paper we describe the roles played as well as contributions made by child participants in the design of an innovative communication tool for children with cancer SISOM is a handheld portable computer application with a graphical user interface that is meant to 1 help children with cancer communicate their symptoms problems in a child friendly age adjusted manner and 2 assist clinicians in addressing children s experienced symptoms and problems in patient care Unlike other applications for children the purpose of SISOM is not to provide information to ill children but to elicit personal information from them Thus the application has a unique set of design issues Healthy and ill children played an important role in different stages in the design process They made significant contributions to the graphical design of the system s interface selection of understandable child friendly terms used by the system to describe symptoms iconic and graphical representations and its usability We describe the participatory design methods we used that included children and share important insights from this collaborative design process