Evaluation of home health care devices: Remote usability assessment

JMIR Human Factors

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kortum, Philip ^a   Peres, S Camille ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care evaluation mechanisms; Human computer interaction design and evaluation methods; Patient satisfaction; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026309369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22929495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/humanfactors.4570     Document Type: Article

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