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PhD-student: Naoe Tatara
PhD Candidate in telemedicine, Faculty of Science at the University of Tromsø (UiT), department of computer science.
| Name: | Naoe Tatara |
| Discipline: | Medical informatics |
| Education/place of study: | University of Tromsø, Department of Computer Science |
| Time frame: | December 2007 - December 2011 |
| Source of funding: | Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory (TTL) |
| Project title: | User interaction design in self help tool on mobile phone for diabetics |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Scient Gunnar Hartvigsen, University of Tromsø |
Project description:Diabetes is one of the most common non-communicable diseases globally. Poor self-management of diabetes causes serious complications, which results in enormous health costs for virtually every society.For successful self-management of diabetes, it is important that diabetics comply with medical regimens and change lifestyle, especially increase activity and decrease the amount of dietary fat and overall caloric intake over long period. However, to sustain these efforts is not easy. The aim of this project is to obtain knowledge base in design methodology of self-help tools that motivate diabetics to use continuously over long period. The targeted device as a terminal of self-help tool is a mobile phone, especially a smart phone, since this project will explore necessary functions to make self-help tools as easy, intuitive, effective and motivative to use as possible and unobtrusive in daily life. For this purpose, designing methods taking cognitive mechanisms into consideration will be investigated. Implementations of the functions on smart phones and usability tests will be conducted within TTL projects. Contact informationNaoe Tatara, telephone +47 959 98 656 and email naoe.tatara@telemed.no | |
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