Integrating user behavior with engineering design of point-of-care diagnostic devices: theoretical framework and empirical findings.

ABSTRACT: With point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices becoming increasingly available to untrained users, it will be critical to understand how real-world user behavior can best inform and guide the engineering design process. Social sciences present frameworks for analyzing user behavior, but they have not yet been applied to POC diagnostics in a methodical manner. Here, we develop a framework that synthesizes two models that can collectively account for user behavior and experience with POC diagnostic devices: a social psychological information-motivation-behavior (IMB) model (first described by Fisher and Fisher) for identifying determinants for health-related behavior, and user experience (UX) elements for studying interactions between users and products. Based on studies of 40 naïve users of ou

SUBMITTER: Nayak S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6592761 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature