mHEaL and mHealth in a Restricted Environment: Design and Usability of an Offline Mental Health Literacy App

Peter Cannon, Katie Lynn Walkup

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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 languageAmerican English
JournalProceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
StatePublished - 2016

Keywords

  • medical rhetoric
  • usability
  • rhetoric

Disciplines

  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Library and Information Science

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