2012-07-07 Patient Facing Module

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

• https://raxaemr.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RAXAJSS/Coding+Standards
• https://raxaemr.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RAXAJSS/Code+Style+Conventions+for+JavaScript
• jsbeautifier
• save your audiofiles in a object (e.g. enum and name them some CONSTANT_NAME that provides very short description)

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

licensing

• images -> free?
  
  • all images created by Ankita and Vishrut
  • images of medicines are from JSS (took photographs from JSS)
• app -> FOSS Apache license for Raxa
• calendar? -> what license? can we use with Apache 2? https://github.com/vishrut/vishrut.github.com/blob/master/app/plugins/Ext.ux.TouchCalendar.js
  
  • decided to remove touch calendar, so this is not a concern
  • create own calendar plugin in sencha

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?

• ExtJS "accordion" http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!/api/Ext.layout.container.Accordion

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

back-end for Raxa // openmrs

• Aim is to start work on tie-ing into back end in ~2 weeks
• Intro: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Introduction+to+OpenMRS
• DataModel: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Data+Model
• OpenMRS REST API - how we're talking to OpenMRS via Sencha