A usability research for developing and deploying chronic pain relief treatment applications for older adults

Abstract

Chronic Pain relief treatment strategies have been shown to improve health outcomes and decrease the cost of healthcare for older adults living with chronic illness. Reliable health informatics applications, which allow older individuals to manipulate and review personal chronic pain related information have, in turn, been shown to improve chronic pain relief treatment outcomes by supporting learning and reflection. We identify the need for a handheld device infrastructure that facilitates the creation and deployment of such applications and describe our progress in developing and making available such an infrastructure, which we call “Pain Free and Fly”. We discuss how the content of Pain Free and Fly. Follows from key strategies and results in the chronic pain relief treatment literature, and how its application programming application and related services can be leveraged by other researchers wishing to build an older adults’ chronic pain health treatment applications. This investigation analyzed several tasks and collects the related information and opinion from observation and interview. Research findings are based on the outcome of the usability testing and investigation.