Involving People with Cognitive and Communication Impairments in Mobile Health App Design

John Arnott; Matthew Malone; Gareth Lloyd; Bernadette Brophy-Arnott; Susan D. Munro; Robyn McNaughton

doi:10.1145/3234695.3240998

Involving People with Cognitive and Communication Impairments in Mobile Health App Design

John Arnott, Matthew Malone, Gareth Lloyd, Bernadette Brophy-Arnott, Susan D. Munro, Robyn McNaughton

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Abstract

Multiple challenges face people with cognitive and communication impairments when asked to be involved in the design of technology that is appropriate for them. This population is under-represented in healthcare research and have health inequalities relative to most people. The work discussed here concerns how to adapt research processes to suit people with these difficulties when developing smartphone apps to give access to health promotion information, an area in which health inequalities arise. Strategies are identified to assist participants to understand the proposed area of work, to give consent to participation and be involved with activities such as evaluation. A combination of adaptations is proposed to engage people who would otherwise be excluded. It is clear that strategies used to make research participation accessible can assist people with cognitive and communication impairments to influence and inform the development of technology for their use.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	367-369
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356503
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3240998
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2018
Event	ACM ASSETS 2018 Conference - Galway, Ireland Duration: 22 Oct 2018 → 24 Oct 2018 https://assets18.sigaccess.org/

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Conference	ACM ASSETS 2018 Conference
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Galway
Period	22/10/18 → 24/10/18
Internet address	https://assets18.sigaccess.org/

Keywords

Cognitive impairment
Communication impairment
Health promotion
Mobile app design
Research participation

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Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Hardware and Architecture
Software

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Arnott, J., Malone, M., Lloyd, G., Brophy-Arnott, B., Munro, S. D., & McNaughton, R. (2018). Involving People with Cognitive and Communication Impairments in Mobile Health App Design. In ASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 367-369). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3240998

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Arnott, J, Malone, M, Lloyd, G, Brophy-Arnott, B, Munro, SD & McNaughton, R 2018, Involving People with Cognitive and Communication Impairments in Mobile Health App Design. in ASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 367-369, ACM ASSETS 2018 Conference, Galway, Ireland, 22/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3240998

Involving People with Cognitive and Communication Impairments in Mobile Health App Design. / Arnott, John; Malone, Matthew; Lloyd, Gareth et al.
ASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 367-369.

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