Personas: The Linking Pin in Holistic Design for eHealth

Lex van Velsen; Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen; Nicol Nijland; Desirée Beaujean; Jim van Steenbergen

Personas: The Linking Pin in Holistic Design for eHealth

Lex van Velsen
, Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen
, Nicol Nijland
, Desirée Beaujean
, Jim van Steenbergen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Personas, lively descriptions of distinctive user groups for a technology, have the potential to be a useful tool for designing useful and usable eHealth services. In this paper we discuss the role of personas in a holistic design approach for eHealth: the CeHRes roadmap. We show, using the case of a mobile tick and Lyme tool, how one can develop personas and how one can use these personas in future design efforts. We argue that they can be useful for creating requirements and eHealth design, can be the basis for the development of scenarios that guide problem analysis with stakeholders, and finally, can inform both formative and summative evaluations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	eTELEMED 2012
Subtitle of host publication	The Fourth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine
Publisher	International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA)
Pages	128-133
ISBN (Print)	978-1-61208-179-3
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2012
Event	4th International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2012 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 30 Jan 2012 → 4 Feb 2012 Conference number: 4

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Conference	4th International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2012
Abbreviated title	eTELEMED
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	30/01/12 → 4/02/12

Keywords

Holistic design
Human-centered design
Business modeling

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van Velsen, L, van Gemert-Pijnen, L, Nijland, N, Beaujean, D & van Steenbergen, J 2012, Personas: The Linking Pin in Holistic Design for eHealth. in eTELEMED 2012: The Fourth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine. International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), pp. 128-133, 4th International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2012, Valencia, Spain, 30/01/12.

Personas: The Linking Pin in Holistic Design for eHealth. / van Velsen, Lex; van Gemert-Pijnen, Lisette; Nijland, Nicol et al.
eTELEMED 2012: The Fourth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine. International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), 2012. p. 128-133.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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