Background: Currently, exergames are used by different age groups for both recreational and training/rehabilitation purposes. However, little is known about how to design exergames so that they are motivating for specific ...

Patient-centered care encourages active involvement of patients in their own treatment and a collaborative perspective on the relationship between patient and practitioner. However, to achieve constructive patient–practitioner ...

Health and welfare organisations are under increased scrutiny regarding their ability to make innovations in and increase the productivity of their services by digitising and automating them. Our empirical case study focuses ...

Limited social interaction can lead to a repetitive and inactive lifestyle. For the elderly, this can further lead to reduced cognitive ability, in addition to physical decay. Our preliminary study showed that metaphors ...

This article explores care stakeholders’ perspectives on how interactive technology can help form socially active environments in residential care settings. Based on participatory workshops, involving representatives from ...

This thesis has investigated hearing consultations with the intention of informing design of technology that can support active patient involvement in such encounters and improve patient-practitioner collaboration. Patie ...

Ubiquitous computing opens up for a wide range of ways to support human-computer interaction beyond the desktop, and promises more seamless integration between computer technology and situations of use. However, the ...

We describe the results from a Norwegian case study of the attitudes of community-dwelling lung patients and health response center personnel toward a telecare service for such a patient group. The telecare service was ...