A Wee Bit More Interaction: Designing and Evaluating  an Overactive Bladder App

Ana-Maria Salai; Lynne Baillie

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300933

A Wee Bit More Interaction: Designing and Evaluating an Overactive Bladder App

Ana-Maria Salai
, Lynne Baillie

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Abstract

Overactive Bladder (OAB) is a widespread condition, affecting 20% of the population. Even though it is a treatable condition, people often do not seek treatment. In this paper, we describe how we co-designed and evaluated with 30 stakeholders (9 medical professionals and 21 end-users) an OAB mobile health application that aims to increase adherence to self-managed treatment. Our results support previous research that visualizing progress, setting goals, receiving reminders and feedback increases use. We discovered that games could be used successfully as a distraction technique for urge suppression. Contrary to the current research direction, automatically calculated features could be a detriment to app interaction. Regarding evaluation, we found that designers may not want to rely only on questionnaires when assessing the success of a game and its emotional impact on users.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300933
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 https://chi2019.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI EA 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://chi2019.acm.org/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Assistive technology
Co-design
Interviews
Mobile health applications
Overactive bladder
Usability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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