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1. Mobile Health Design

2. Let’s Discuss Schedule Class list Google Hangouts and Google Docs for team work, time during class in breakouts Assignments: 2 for May 30 + final paper
3. Assignment for May 30 (individual): What is your favorite app/device and why (ideally health-related but any is fine) and prepare 1-2 PowerPoint slides with a screen shot and description. Email to Chinyere before class.
4. Assignment for May 30 (team): Select a health goal with your team (food, fitness, happiness, etc.) Keep a shared Google Doc in which each team member notes at least 3 times daily What you are doing related to the goals and how you feel about it What information you have What information you would like to have that exists? What information exists but doesn’t help you? What information would you like to have that may not exist? The perfect butler model – what is smart and/or personalized? Example: for fitness, Monday, 7am I’m planning to go running, not really excited and have too much to do but know I’ll feel good when I’m done I know where I am and my route choices; about how long I want to run for and how long I can run for generally I don’t know the temperature which impacts what I wear (but I know how to get it) A lot: distance and elevation for my route options, information about any runs I tracked in the past, who else is out running (social) I would like to know the physical impact (short term/long term), if it really makes me more productive (!), if it is the best exercise to do given time constraints and cost What I really want is encouragement: Go Lisa, you’ll feel great Example: for fitness, Monday, 9am I ran 24:14 and feel good that I went, good barometer of how I am feeling, but might be my only exercise today My run was 4215 steps, 256 calories, and 913 Nike Fuel (however that is calculated) Does it make a difference long term? Distance and elevation for route Does it make a difference long term? I want the praise, great job, Lisa, look how fast you’ve gotten, etc. Before class on May 30, meet to discuss and prepare 10-15 minutes with slides on What you learned Think about the many factors that influence use of mobile devices, such as immediacy and access, affinity, multiple methods of input/output, context, and big data and predictive analytics What are the implications for the design of an app/device

5. Mobile Advantage: Context and Immediacy in Health Information Seeking

   Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM Assistant Professor Dept.of Public Health and Community Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine Email: lisa.gualtieri@tufts.edu Twitter: @lisagualtieri
6. Health search is everywhere In J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, I read… “She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box.The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities…”
7. Agenda Past Present Focus on what mobile devices provide health seekers Future
8. Past, present, and future of health information seeking behavior ? “Democratization of location” Democratization of medical information
9. Before looking at mobile health search, need to ask if people use mobile devices 321.7M wireless subscribers in US at end of 2011 Penetration of 101% Smartphones outnumber feature phones in the US 1 in 8 internet page views are on smartphone or tablet, doubling in just a year Comscore 9/12 Almost impossible to focus only on laptops and desktops when considering health information seeking
10. Not only are mobile devices used but they may eradicate the “digital divide” Smartphone ownership in US 49% of Hispanics 47% of African Americans 42% of whites Pew Internet & American Life Project 9/12
11. Some people are only using mobile devices 34% of US household are wireless only Stephen J. Blumberg, Julian V. Luke, Wireless Substitution: Early release of estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2011, National Center for Health Statistics, 2012, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr061.pdf But one device or many?
12. Some people are using lots of mobile devices 40% of US households have 3 or more mobile devices in addition to their PCs & TVs Differences in Where mobile phones and tablets are used Frequency of use
13. Where are mobile phones and tablets used? Note that doctor’s office isn’t listed! Base: 2,116 US online adults who own a mobile phone; Base: 549 US online adults who own a tablet Source: North American Technographics Telecom And Devices Online Recontact Survey, Q3 2011 (US)
14. Tablets are used more frequently than smartphones with the exception of daily health content users Source: comScore Custom Research – Jan/Feb 2010 Total n=1191 and Jan 2012 Total n=1033 How often do you use your device for health purposes?
15. What do mobile devices provide health seekers? Immediacy and access Affinity Multiple methods of input/output Context
16. Immediacy and access 85% of respondents had cell phones 53% of these, or 45% of US adults, had smartphones Cell phone owners 31% look for health or medical information 11% have health apps 9% receive text updates or alerts from doctor or pharmacist Pew 9/12 via Susannah Fox Mobile devices may be used immediately after leaving doctor’s office, especially with a new diagnosis or prescription Impact on health literacy especially recall and retention Impact on patient-physician communication Could patients listen or ask questions differently due to reliance on search?
17. What do mobile devices provide health seekers? Immediacy and access Affinity Multiple methods of input/output Context More lovable when they’re cute and little
18. Affinity People relate to computers differently than people What about smartphones? Tablets? Mobile users have an ongoing intimate and personalized relationship with their “digital appendage” or “cognitive prosthetic device” Do people seek information differently? Searches on mobile devices tend to be about private/sensitive conditions: sexually transmitted diseases, mental health How is use changing? Greater online community use
19. Top 10 health searches 2011 Web 1. Cancer 2. Diabetes 3. Symptom 4. Pain 5. Weight 6. Infection 7. Virus 8. Diet 9. Thyroid 10. Sleep Healthline Networks Mobile 1. Chlamydia 2. Bipolar disorder 3. Depression 4. Smoking/quit smoking 5. Herpes 6. Gout 7. Scabies 8. Multiple Sclerosis 9. Pregnancy 10. Vitamin A
20. Online research is up in every category with the greatest growth in community support Largest shift: more people were seeking online communities! Source: comScore Custom Research – Jan/Feb 2010 Total n=1191 and Jan 2012 Total n=1033 What types of health-related information have you looked for online in the last 6 months?
21. What do mobile devices provide health seekers? Immediacy and access Affinity Multiple methods of input/output Context
22. Methods of input/output Input: less typing, fewer spelling mistakes Text: Autocomplete, word suggestions, etc. Voice: “Siri, what is…” QR codes Search: many types of mobile search: app and browser In mobile browser On mobile website In app store In an app Output: limitations are screensize and location/privacy Text Images Video
23. 52% Thousands 59% SOURCE: COMSCORE MOBIL LENS, 3 MOS ENDING MARCH 2012
24. Number of search results viewed on smartphone versus computer
25. What do mobile devices provide health seekers? Immediacy and access Affinity Multiple methods of input/output Context
26. Context People are exposed to a wealth of contextual information: what they see, hear, feel, remember How do people act on it using their mobile device? Multiple devices monitor and record contextual information, including sensors and GPS How do weather, location, time of day, blood pressure, etc. impact personalization and tailoring? Big data and predictive analytics
27. Sometimes asking questions leads to more questions: fighting the Hydra
28. Some of my questions… Do people conduct health searches differently On smartphones or tablets? In mobile browsers or mobile websites or app stores or apps? Using text or voice? Based on location? Are people more or less easily able to locate “helpful” information? Are there different indicators of quality or reliability? How can mobile health search better help people to seek information and achieve their health goals?
29. Near future Design for mobile first instead of retrofitting health websites into mobile format Make smarter smartphones and better integrate sensor data Learn from strategies used by well-funded retail Use of big data and predictive analytics to provide accurate and timely health information
30. Future From digital appendages to… Google glasses The ultimate in seamless mobile health search?