Abstract

 

 

 

Credits

 

Jonathan

·        Proposal write-up

·        Introduction and abstract (user needs and design report)

·        System requirements (user needs)

·        ¼ References + reformatting

·        ¼ User tests

·        Music, Doctors orders, and Medication screens of PIE prototype.

 

Roger

·        ½ DVD style prototype (low fidelity prototype)

·        2 case studies (user needs and design report)

·        Setup and General Results (Usability Test Results)

·        ¼ References

·        ¼ User tests

·        Games, Internet, and Room Control screens of PIE prototype

·        Website design and deployment

 

Aaron

·        ½ Side-Menu style prototype (low fidelity prototype)

·        ¼ References

·        ¼ User tests

·        Movie and Main menu screens of PIE prototype

·        Report of Development Processes

 

Mike

·        ½ DVD style prototype (low fidelity prototype)

·        2 case studies (user needs and design report)

·        ¼ References

·        ¼ User tests

·        Walkthrough  screen of PIE prototype

·        Transitions for PIE prototype

Introduction

 

When you think of staying in a hospital over a long period of time, what are the images that come to mind?  Perhaps it’s the busy hospital halls, white bed sheets, or colorful curtains. If not, then maybe it’s the beeping blinking machinery that is strewn and wheeled all over the hospital. Maybe it’s a combination of these things, but regardless of exactly what images come to mind, they are probably not images that bring you immense joy or comfort; in fact they probably make you a little depressed.

 

The PIE (Patient Information and Entertainment) system will seek to change that. Although we realize that a hospital stay will probably never be as comforting or luxurious as a stay in a 5 star hotel, or a Caribbean cruise, the PIE system will seek to make a hospital stay more pleasant. Specifically speaking the PIE system will seek to make a long-term patients stay in a hospital, more informative and entertaining by providing features that would cater to that patients desires.

 

Although the PIE system could have a variety of benefits to any hospital patient, we have chosen to focus on long term patients. These patients are ones who are in good enough medical condition to use a remote and/or wireless keyboard to browse an interface containing multiple information and entertainment options, but who may not be well enough to get up and walk around. These patients include (but are not limited to) patients recovering from a serious illness or injury, patients receiving therapy (such as chemo therapy), or patients recovering from a surgery.

 

The main goal of our system is to keep these patients informed and entertained. PIE will accomplish this through a variety of options available to these users. Although there are thousands of possible features we could implement we have chosen to focus on those features that the patients would find either entertaining or informative and those that are feasible while sitting and seeing a screen far away. These features include the ability for the user to browse doctors orders, see information on their particular disease/condition, and/or message a nurse with a question they may have. Entertainment features of the system include games and music. In addition the system will allow users to adjust their meal schedules and/or room temperature. These features are explained in more detail below.

 

 

 

Commercial systems:

 

Title: “Patient Power entertainment units”

Publisher and Date: BHR Hospitals 2005

Site: http://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/hospital/patientpower.jsp

This is a brief article about a chain of British hospitals, BHR Trust, and their installation of entertainment units for all their patients. Using entertainment systems from Wandsworth Group, each patient will be able to watch TV, receive a talking books channel, listen to hospital radio, and have internet access. Upon testing their system they reported, “It was obvious from the feedback received from both nursing staff and patients, that the entertainment systems enhanced the patient environment and patient stay while in the hospital.” This motivated us to push forward and make an even more useful tool.

 

Title: Skylight Healthcare Systems

Publisher and Date: Skylight Healthcare System, Inc. 2004

Site: http://www.skylight.com/

This is the homepage for Skylight Healthcare Systems, Inc.  They have developed a product called ACCESS, an Interactive Patient System.  What they have developed incorporates many similar ideas to what we are planning on doing, including media and communication technology.

 

Title: Patientline

Publisher and Date: Patientline UK Ltd 2005

Site: http://www.patientline.co.uk/

This is another patient entertainment system which allows patients to listen to the radio, watch TV, and make phone calls all while laying in bed.  Although the idea is good, our project scope hopes to be larger. Although a phone may prove useful, most people already have cell phones, and the idea of radio/TV is helpful, but should only be considered starting points. What this interface lacks, and which we choose to include is information that could prove useful for the patient, as well as interactive entertainment such as arcade games or trivia. 

 

Title: “Interactive Hospital Systems: The Hospital Network”

Publisher and Date: HCORP Inc 2003

Site: http://www.hcorp.com/products/Products.htm

Yet another entertainment system for patients, but what makes this one different ist hat it includes both information and entertainment. This product gave us an idea of the broad variety of features we could include, such as a radio pillow, satellite TV, or satellite radio to name a few. It also encouraged our

 

 

Academic Papers

 

Title: “Inclusive design of an interface for a hospital system for information, communication and entertainment.” 

Publisher and date: Disability, Virtual Reality & Assoc. Tech., 2002
Author: R McCrindle, F Arnold, G Cook, J Barrett and D Booy

Site: http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/ISRG/icdvrat/2002/papers/2002_19.pdf

This is a paper about features that a hospital system can offer which would be usable to people of all ages, computer experience, native language, etc.  It discusses design needs and the like and is quite applicable.

 

Title: “Socio-Cultural Aspects of Hospital Design. The Patient Perspective.“

Publisher and Date: The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, February 2002.

Author: Nord, Catharina

Site: http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.infra.kth.se/bba/PDF/report_to_namibia.pdf

This report concerns the results of a study concerning the "socio-cultural" aspects of hospital use, including, but not limited to, "Entertainment and Distraction," "Comfort," and "Health Enhancing Activities," all of which are applicable to our research.

 

Title: “Hospital check-ups”

Publisher and Date: Architects' Journal, October 1996

Site:http://www.childrens-express.org/dynamic/public/hospital_031096.htm

This is an article published by Children's Express, which explains the difficulties that children experience in hospitals. It is of relevance because it also points out some difficulties that adults would have as well, and possible solutions to those problems. We might be able to incorporate some of the  

 

 

Other Relevant websites

 

Title: Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005.

Site:http://www.cdc.gov/

Department of Health and Human Resources Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official website. This site has massive amounts of information on various diseases, and conditions, including their symptoms, control, prevention, treatment, and more. It also has the information available in different languages, and is for the most part easy for the average adult to read.

 

Title: “GetWellNetwork: Healing Through Connectivity”

Publisher and Date: GetWellNetwork 2005

Site:http://www.getwellnetwork.com/

The Get well Network develops commercial fully customizable patient information and entertainment systems.  Their mission is to help patients Get connected. Get informed. and Get well.  Their site includes case studies on the usage and effect of patient information systems.

 

Title: “Using Windows XP Media Center Edition”

Publisher and Date: Microsoft 2005

Site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mce/expert/bridgman_02november25.mspx

This is an article by Microsoft talking about the user interface design of Windows Media Center Edition. Additionally, it contains history about the move from a 2 ft viewing experience to a 10 ft viewing experience.

Title: “Introduction to the 10-Foot Experience for Windows Game Developers”
Publisher and Date: Microsoft 2005
Site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/directx/TechnicalArticles/MCE.asp
This is another article by Microsoft that gives an introduction to the 10-foot experience for game developers. It gives suggestions about what not to do when outputting to a NTSC display (such as a TV) and some guidelines about user inputs.

Title: “Building a Linux PVR, Part 2: Microsoft's MCE 2004”

Author and Date: Purav Sanghani

Site: http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2208&p=5

This is an in-depth technical comparison between Windows Media Center Edition and MythTV (Linux). The hyperlink above is a link to the interface subsection which focuses on the aesthetic and functional comparison of the two software interfaces.

 

Title: Flash Games

Publisher and Date: Varies

Sites:

http://www.addictinggames.com

http://www.flash-game.net/

http://www.shockwave.com/

All of these sites provide free flash games for download. Any one of these could be used as fuel as the games in our entertainment station.

 

 

Title: “Designing User Interfaces”

Publisher and Date: HCIRN 2005

Site:http://www.hcirn.com/tutor/ui/index.php

This is another website which provides useful information on creating a successful user interface. It gets specific about certain aspects of the user interface, such as combo boxes, buttons, and labels.

 

Title: “Flash Interface Design Made Simple”

Author and Date: Steve Grosvenor, July 2004

Site:http://www.sitepoint.com/print/flash-interface-design

This site provides great tips and suggestions for creating user interfaces in flash.

 

Title: “User interfaces for digital television: a navigator case study”

Publisher and Date: ACM Press 2000

Authors: Eronen, Leena and Petri Vuorimaa

Site:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=345346&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=56328341&CFTOKEN=28877224