User acquaintance with mobile interfaces.
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2013-06-06
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Handheld technology finds slowly its place in the healthcare world Some clinicians already use intensively dedicated mobile applications to consult clinical references However handheld technology hasn t still broadly embraced to the core of the healthcare business the hospitals The weak penetration of handheld technology in the hospitals can be partly explained by the caution of stakeholders that must be convinced about the efficiency of these tools before going forward In a domain where temporal constraints are increasingly strong caregivers cannot loose time on playing with gadgets All users are not comfortable with tactile manipulations and the lack of dedicated peripheral complicates entering data for novices Stakeholders must be convinced that caregivers will be able to master handheld devices In this paper we make the assumption that the proper design of an interface may influence users performances to record information We are also interested to find out whether users increase their efficiency when using handheld tools repeatedly To answer these questions we have set up a field study to compare users performances on three different user interfaces while recording vital signs Some user interfaces were familiar to users and others were totally innovative Results showed that users familiarity with smartphone influences their performances and that users improve their performances by repeating a task