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Usability and Fun of the INTERACCT Client

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We present the INTERACCT system, a smartphone app and a Web page for fostering communication between young patients in aftercare after a stem cell transplantation. In this phase of rehabilitation, daily communication between the patients and their clinicians is key for detecting upcoming possibly deadly crises as early as possible. The app consists of a communication part, a gaming part, a module for daily medicine, and a daily story for further motivation. We describe the system as well as an evaluation of the app with several healthy children.

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    http://interacct.at/.

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    http://www.re-mission2.org/ (accessed May 7th 2015).

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    http://www.interacct.at/troestgeschichten/.

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  1. Research Group Entertainment Computing, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Helmut Hlavacs, Rebecca Wölfle, Konrad Peters & Daniel Martinek

  2. Department Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Jens Kuczwara, Fares Kayali, Andrea Reithofer & Ruth Mateus-Berr

  3. St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Brunmair, Zsuzsanna Lehner & Anita Lawitschka

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  2. Budapest University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. University of Glasgow, Glaswow, United Kingdom

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Hlavacs, H. et al. (2017). Usability and Fun of the INTERACCT Client. In: Giokas, K., Bokor, L., Hopfgartner, F. (eds) eHealth 360°. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_21

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