Use of cultural probes for representation of chronic disease experience: Exploration of an innovative method for design of supportive technologies

  • Authors:

  • Linda Hassling;Sam Nordfeldt;Henrik Eriksson;Toomas Timpka

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Dept. of Health and Soc., Linköping Univ., Linköping and Diabetes Res. Ctr., Div. of Ped. and Div. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dept. of Molec. and Clin. Med., Fac. of Health Sci. ...;Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden and Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Technology and Health Care
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Chronic diseases do not only manifest themselves as sets of pathophysiological factors. They bring about an equally important psychosocial impact. Unfortunately, it is difficult to account for this impact in the development of supportive technologies. This study describes and explores a method for elicitation of requirements on technologies supporting self-management including emotional aspects. The method takes advantage of a self-documentary media kit for collection of data from the everyday context of chronic disease. The resulting contextual data can contribute new insights to multi-disciplinary teams in the design of supporting technologies.