AbstractsMedical & Health Science

This assignment focuses on defining a set of guidelines for the design of tailored interactions with telehealth devices based on psychological profiles of chronic patients. Telehealth systems allow patients to measure their vital signs at home and send them to a monitoring health agency. Remote monitoring increases the patient’s independence, but also his responsibility since he provides the first input to the monitoring system. A more patient- centred approach will increase patients’ motivation to use it. The definition of design guidelines based on psychological profiles can facilitate the effective tailoring of tangible products/systems to the profiles. In this project, a blood pressure meter (BPM) was used as a design case. Different solutions to motivate patients to measure their blood pressure were designed, based on each profile’s motivational style and emotional state while measuring. The designs were evaluated with chronic patients in two subsequent design iterations, and refined according to their feedback.