2012-07-07 Patient Facing Module

Owned by Nathan Leiby (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 07, 2012Version comment

Participants: Ankita Mehta (Unlicensed), Vishrut Patel (Unlicensed), Nathan Leiby

Overview

ankita and vishrut 

  • studying information and communication tech
  • interning at human development lab @ CMU
  • Aim to find out how an illiterate subject can use a text-free UI

what information they want user to have access to easily

  • next appointment
  • medicine schedule
  • general instructions provided by the doctor

patient population

  • either illiterate or cannot understand hindi
  • used images and voice-overs
  • can understand #s (prefer #s written in Hindi)
  • hindi calendar is ok

testing

  • tested with some patients -> can understand what the calendar is about (can read weekdays in Hindi)
  • have one more week to test on field
  • running on an ipad

goals for next week

  • informal testing, waiting for IRB approval
  • once approval happens, can do more formal tests

sencha feedback

  • limited: few components, hard to make custom widgets (calendar)
  • graphic-intensive app, more difficulty to shape using sencha


Usability Feedback

ideas:

  • read name and teshil out loud
  • is green "check" vs red "x" familiar to iliterate users as (approve and reject)? what if they're colorblind?
  • allow some kind of functionality where tapping says the name of what you tap, so if you make a mistake you'll know?
  • calendar? do they understand?

 

Code Feedback

Code is on GitHub here: https://github.com/vishrut/vishrut.github.com

Coding Standrads

remove commented code, such as
//padding:'5px',

licensing

images should be resized properly to save on bandwidth transfer to device

pages that are nearly identical should be combined into one view, pass a value to parametrize

  • ExpandedAfternoon.js, ..Morning, ..Evening, ..Night

stores

  • stores that are identical can be combined into one store type
  • can create .json files describing the data
  • can instantiate with different names

want to expand and contract - what component can solve this?

have you tried packaging the app natively for iphone, android, etc

back-end for Raxa // openmrs