Usability of a patient education and motivation tool using heuristic evaluation

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Joshi, Ashish ^a   Arora, Mohit ^a   Dai, Liwei ^b   Price, Kathleen ^a   Vizer, Lisa ^a   Sears, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Usability Engineering Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Education; Health; Heuristic; Usability

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PARENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER REVIEW;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PEER REVIEW; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 73349140188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1244     Document Type: Article

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