Examining usability in the communication design of health wearables

Authors :: Catherine Gouge
John Jones
Les Hutchinson
Krista Kennedy
Timothy R. Amidon
Candice A. Welhausen
Lora Arduser
Tiffany Lipsey
Maria Novotny
Kristen R. Moore
Natasha N. Jones
Source :: SIGDOC
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: ACM, 2017.
Abstract: This panel consists of six case studies that investigate how emerging contexts for use created by health wearables present UX designers with challenges related to agency, surveillance, and health outcomes, as wearables assess the body in new, potentially unforeseen ways.

Subjects :: Communication design
business.industry
Computer science
05 social sciences
Wearable computer
050801 communication & media studies
Usability
02 engineering and technology
Health outcomes
Occupational safety and health
Feminism
World Wide Web
0508 media and communications
020204 information systems
Agency (sociology)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
business
Western medicine

Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........f92a5cc9a7c205eb48c4ac7384c1a260
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1145/3121113.3121226