Mobile Application Design Emergency Medical Call for the Deaf using UCD Method

Mobile Application Design Emergency Medical Call for the Deaf using UCD Method

Deaf

Healthy Phone

User-Centered Design

Emergency call

The Iconography interface

Deaf or hearing loss is a condition of inability to hear something, either totally or partially. Hearing loss greatly affects the life of a person in communicating with the people around him. Deaf people will be very difficult when in a medical emergency, this is because the medical emergency situation requires fast action.          The Healthy Phone application is a mobile medical emergency call application that can help people with hearing impaired when in emergency situations. With the Healthy Phone application, the user only needs to select an icon that suits the situation encountered in touchscreen mobile device then the message will be sent to the nearest hospital.                To search for icons corresponding to emergencies, the User Centered Design (UCD) method is used. This application is very helpful for deaf people because this application does not require audio communication and user location is also sent automatically to the nearest hospital. The results were analyzed using four emergency event scenarios with a total score of 87% and an average user time of less than 0:42 sec indicating that the study was successful in designing a mobile medical emergency call application according to user requirements.

Risald, Risald

Suyoto, Suyoto

Santoso, Albertus Joko

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 12 No. 3 (2018); pp. 168-177

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2018-07-20

Copyright (c) 2018 Risald Risald, Suyoto Suyoto, Albertus Joko Santoso

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