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My Pain Coach: A Mobile System with Tangible Interface for Pain Assessment

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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Abstract

Pain assessment is an essential first step in planning for and providing pain management. Access to effective pain management programs is often limited, due to scarcity of services. Other barriers to treatment include physical symptoms that limit mobility, distance from a clinic, transportation requirements and cost constraints. In response to these barriers to service delivery, the demand for online health resources is growing. However, current solutions present a number of shortcomings, in particular when referring to usability and accessibility. This paper presents the vision of the My Pain Coach system and the first prototype generated as the result of the first iteration of the development process. This prototype is based on a smartphone app and presents two different interfaces: a force-sensitive touchscreen, and a tangible interface based on a textile mat. A preliminary usability evaluation has been conducted and the results show that these interfaces are perceived as excellent from a usability point of view. Nevertheless, further development and testing are still required for the tangible interface.

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Acknowledgement

The authors want to thank Andrea Della Porta for his valuable contribution to this work.

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  1. University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Maurizio Caon, Leonardo Angelini, Omar Abou Khaled & Elena Mugellini

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Katharina Ledermann & Chantal Martin-Sölch

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Katharina Ledermann

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  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

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  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

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Caon, M., Angelini, L., Ledermann, K., Martin-Sölch, C., Khaled, O.A., Mugellini, E. (2019). My Pain Coach: A Mobile System with Tangible Interface for Pain Assessment. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_139

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