Abstract
This paper extends principles of usability and health information seeking to explore the development of an offline application for a special population of information consumers in a women’s residential drug and treatment center. The offline application, called mHEal, will track and deliver mental health literacy (MHL) information to consumers, thereby increasing self-efficacy. Personalization of MHL services via a computer-based intervention required advanced usage of speculative usability, followed by design of an offline application. The paper will comment upon procedures of implementation, including a hybridized person-and-technology encounter, before closing on further usability considerations and implications for future health information technologies.
Original language | American English |
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Journal | Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication |
State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- medical rhetoric
- usability
- rhetoric
Disciplines
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Library and Information Science