What makes a good home-based nocturnal seizure detector? A value sensitive design.

ABSTRACT: A device for the in-home detection of nocturnal seizures is currently being developed in the Netherlands, to improve care for patients with severe epilepsy. It is recognized that the design of medical technology is not value neutral: perspectives of users and developers are influential in design, and design choices influence these perspectives. However, during development processes, these influences are generally ignored and value-related choices remain implicit and poorly argued for. In the development process of the seizure detector we aimed to take values of all stakeholders into consideration. Therefore, we performed a parallel ethics study, using "value sensitive design." Analysis of stakeholder communication (in meetings and e-mail messages) identified five important values, namely,

SUBMITTER: van Andel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4395301 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature