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NurseCare: Design and 'In-The-Wild' Evaluation of a Mobile System to Promote the Ergonomic Transfer of Patients

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Maximilian Dürr,

Carla Gröschel,

Harald ReitererAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376851

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Nurses are frequently required to transfer patients as part of their daily duties. However, the manual transfer of patients is a major risk factor for injuries to the back. Although the Kinaesthetics Care Conception can help to address this issue, existing support for the integration of the concept into nursing-care practice is low. We present NurseCare, a mobile system that aims to promote the practical application of ergonomic patient transfers based on the Kinaesthetics Care Conception. NurseCare consists of a wearable and a smartphone app. Key features of NurseCare include mobile accessible instructions for ergonomic patient transfers, in-situ feedback for the risky bending of the back, and long-term feedback. We evaluated NurseCare in a nine participant 'in-the-wild' evaluation. Results indicate that NurseCare can facilitate ergonomic work while providing a high user experience adequate to the nurses' work domain, and reveal how NurseCare can be incorporated in given practices.

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NurseCare: Design and 'In-The-Wild' Evaluation of a Mobile System to Promote the Ergonomic Transfer of Patients
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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