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A Study on Usability Improvement of Mobile Healthcare Services

  • Kim, Heesun (Dept. of Multimedia Engineering, Andong National University)
  • Received : 2017.04.19
  • Accepted : 2017.05.12
  • Published : 2017.06.30

Abstract

The developments in mobile technology and the increase in the production of smartphones have led to the growth of the mobile healthcare market. Moreover, the number of mobile healthcare apps is on the rise, and users are benefiting from using healthcare, exercise tracking, and body monitoring apps, as well as they have been searching for health information through mobile health apps. This paper evaluated the usability of a symptom checker application that provides information on diseases, treatment methods, and related hospitals through self-diagnosis of symptoms. Symptom checkers are currently being developed, and are widely used overseas. This paper sought to evaluate the usability of a symptom checker app, and suggested ways to introduce enhancements.

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