Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
10 results found tagged self-management.
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Co-Ideating a Digital Pain Companion: Exploring How Music Can Support Daily Chronic Pain Self-Management
This paper presents the co-ideation of the Digital Pain Companion (DPC), a proposed music-integrating wearable interface for daily chronic pain self-management. Grounded in the psychosocial dimensions of chronic pain rather than biomedical symptom tr…
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Designing Adaptive User Interfaces for mHealth Applications Targeting Chronic Disease: A User-Centered Approach
This paper from Monash and Deakin Universities addresses a persistent gap in mHealth design: most chronic disease self-management apps treat users as a homogeneous group, ignoring the wide variation in capabilities, health status, cultural background…
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Beyond Conventional Health Technologies: Investigating Design Opportunities for Improving Self-management in People with Multiple Sclerosis
This qualitative HCI study investigates how people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) use existing health technologies to manage their symptoms and condition in daily life outside clinical settings. MS is a chronic neurological condition causing fluctuatin…
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Picture Planner: A Cognitively Accessible Personal Activity Scheduling Application
This paper presents Picture Planner, an icon-driven personal activity scheduling application developed by Eugene Research Institute for individuals with cognitive disabilities. The application addresses a significant gap in accessible software: while…
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Technology Devices for Older Adults to Aid Self Management of Chronic Health Conditions
This University of Dundee study investigates older adults' opinions and attitudes toward technology devices that could be used as part of a telecare system for self-managing chronic health conditions. The research was conducted through technology eva…
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COSMA: Cooperative Self-Management Tool for Adolescents with Autism
This student research competition paper presents COSMA, a mobile application prototype designed to support cooperative self-management of behavior for adolescents with autism during their transition through puberty. Adolescence is particularly challe…
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Understanding Mental Ill-health as Psychosocial Disability: Implications for Assistive Technology
This paper argues that mental ill-health — including depression, anxiety, and other mental, emotional, or cognitive experiences — should be understood as psychosocial disability and examined through a social model lens rather than exclusively through…
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Ageing is Not a Disease: Pitfalls for the Acceptance of Self-Management Health Systems Supporting Healthy Ageing
This paper reports on a qualitative study with 20 older adults (mean age 80, range 65-92) in Belgium, investigating their attitudes towards self-management health systems (SMHS) — integrated solutions that combine data from sensors and self-reports w…
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VIDDE: Visualizations for Helping People with COPD Interpret Dyspnea During Exercise
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects approximately 10% of the adult population and is a leading cause of physical disability worldwide. People with COPD experience dyspnea (breathing discomfort) during physical exertion, which often t…
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"It was Mentally Painful to Try and Stop": Design Opportunities for Just-in-Time Interventions for People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Real World
This paper presents the first in-depth interview study examining the diverse triggers, compulsions, and self-management strategies of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to inform the design of just-in-time intervention technologies. The resear…