A Qualitative Assessment of Medical Device Design by Healthy Adolescents

Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 539-548

  Lang, Alexandra R ^a,b   Martin, Jennifer L ^a,b   Sharples, Sarah ^a,b   Crowe, John A ^a,b  

^a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Medical device; Proxy; Teenagers; User needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860821702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/EBK1439834978-63     Document Type: Chapter

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