| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 工業工程與管理系所 === 94 === In the aging generation, the issue of health has been the main concern. The researchers find that the lack of health knowledge, threatening the elders’ health, is one of significant reasons. Therefore, this research probes on the elders’ lifestyle to identify the elders’ needs for healthcare information, and then generates a concrete design concept of the mobile healthcare device. By detecting context and personal physical indexes with context-aware technology, this device can provide information and auxiliaries for the elders in time. In order to thoroughly understand the elders’ healthcare needs and to reduce the risk of bad design, we use many methodologies such as Scenario-Based Design, Rapid Ethnography, Deeply Interview, and Activity Theory. The results show that the elders’ needs for the healthcare activity that include single information channel, specialized assistance or reminders, macro event supports, easy recording and transmitting methods, and detection of physical condition. The concrete design concepts of the healthcare device are intimate reminders, activity information and calendars, culinary suggestion, distance learning, checklist, traffic information, radio frequency identification, on-line consultation, diet suggestion, athletic suggestion, and self-care. The proposed concept was presented as the concrete scenario by Macromedia Flash MX 2004 evaluated by the elders, carers, relatives, and medical staff. The results indicate that physical-index detection is the most important one that decreases the elders’ and relatives’ misgivings. Distance learning is not preferred since there is no physical interaction. As for other functions, they satisfy the elders separately. Although those concrete design concepts in the thesis meet elders’ needs, the detail of personalized issues should be researched more in the future.
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