My Role: Project lead, lead designer, developer
Summary
Motivation: Habilitation services, notably prehabilitation and rehabilitation, are important components of patients’ surgical care. Contrary to traditional reactive healthcare models, proactive healthcare in the form of prehabilitation has shown promise in facilitating surgical patients’ recoveries beyond rehabilitation alone.
Approach: My dissertation research intends to explore the following themes: 1) identifying pre-surgical challenges for surgical patients, 2) exploring how patients and clinicians currently perform prehabilitation, and 3) using data-driven design to develop and evaluate real-world healthcare applications intended to facilitate patients’ engagement.
Method: Observation, workflow modeling, semi-structured interview, forum analysis.
Implementation: Ionic Framework
Result: We are currently conducting a deployment study.
Download: Android Play Store