This thesis examines current mHealth application responding to people with diabetes and caretakers. Diabetes, mHealth application and community are unfolded to be explored; accordingly a caring system is carried out with the objective of providing a minimal but meaningful platform, an expecting service and a newly-defined collaborative encounter for diabetics. The research were conducted through desktop research, questionnaire, interview and expert’s opinion. Desktop research comprised a variety of literature research and case study. It projects the established medical achievement to diabetes as well as existing product, service and business model in the market. The diversity of the research addressed from different sectors and case study broadened the perspectives, advising alternative approach to refine a new service journey. Questionnaire were distributed to people with diabetes with the aim of capturing a general user portrait in mHealth market. Interviews were conducted both with people with diabetes and associated caretakers. This process enabled the author to pin out the touchpoint and to reflect the pain points along the current user journey. Insights cultivated along the interview were transformed into indications to potential opportunities. Opinions from experts facilitated the author to understand the constrains in this field with a wilder perspective. Meanwhile, these also pointed out several ideas which were yet explored in the market. Following the research, four dimensions were addressed to define the service frame: carbohydrate counting, food logging, hypoglycemia management and empathy-and-support. Bobii, a caring system is designed to connect the dots: doctors, pharmacists, people with diabetes and caretakers on an application platform. Bobii looks at both daily care and emergency care related to diabetes. In emergency management, the collaborative encounter is created to support each other when hypoglycemia occurs. The guardian angel net includes all the stakeholders to dilute the burden; accordingly enhances the the welfare for the whole community. As to daily care, Bobii eliminates the complex of carbohydrate counting by providing a photo-matching nutrition database; consequently, it changes the way to do logbook from text input to photo capturing. The database will be constantly updated due to collective efforts contributed by the community. As to The design of Bobii subsequently suggests another formate of mHealth application: while most of the services are embedded online, Bobii tends to equip its online service with more human touch and also try to promote the social value written in this new collaborative encounter.
Questa tesi analizza il funzionamento delle applicazioni mHealth per malati di diabete e per le persone che se ne prendono cura. Il diabete, le applicazioni mHealth e la comunità rimangono ancora un campo inesplorato; per questo motivo è stato sviluppato un sistema di assistenza con lo scopo di fornire una piattaforma utile e intuitiva. Un servizio innovativo pensato in modo mirato per i diabetici. Le ricerche sono state condotte sulla base di fonti documentarie, questionari, interviste e opinioni di esperti nel campo. Per la ricerca sono state utilizzate una bibliografia piuttosto diversificata e vari studi sul campo, tenendo conto dei risultati medici finora raggiunti, dei prodotti già esistenti e dei modelli economici sul mercato. Grazie all’analisi di settori differenti e di particolari casistiche si sono aperte nuove prospettive, che hanno portato al raggiungimento di un nuovo approccio per perferzionare l’utilizzo di questo tipo di applicazioni. Sono stati distribuiti questionari ai pazienti diabetici con l’obiettivo di delineare un ritratto dell’utente tipo nel mercato mHealth. Sia i malati di diabete, sia le rispettive persone che li assistono sono state sottoposte a interviste. Questo processo ha portato l’autore a elaborare i dati, individuando le carenze nell’utilizzo dell’utente. Le informazioni ottenute dalle interviste sono state trasformate in nuove opportunità. Le opinioni degli esperti, invece, hanno facilitato l’autore a comprendere i limiti in questo campo da una prospettiva più ampia e hanno aiutato a rafforzare diverse idee già radicate sul mercato. Per questa ricerca sono state considerate quattro dimensioni per definire la struttura del servizio: il conteggio dei carboidrati, la registrazione dei cibi assunti, la gestione dell’ipoglicemia e il supporto psicologico del paziente. Bobii è un sistema di assistenza pensato per chiudere un cerchio: dottori, farmacismi e persone diabetiche con i propri cari possono usare questa applicazione. Bobii si occupa sia del trattamento quotidiano, sia dei casi di emergenza. La gestione delle emergenze, invece, si basa sul supporto che ci si può dare l’un l’altro quando si presentano casi di ipoglicemia. Si crea, così, una rete di angeli custodi che include tutte le persone coinvolte con lo scopo di diminuire il rischio di seri pericoli. Nell’uso ordinario Bobii elimina il complesso conteggio dei carboidrati utilizzando un database fotografico nutrizionale; di conseguenza cambia il modo in cui si registrano i dati: dall’inserimento di un testo all’utilizzo di fotografie. Il database viene costantemente aggiornato grazie a contributi collettivi. Il design di Bobii implica, conseguentemente, un nuovo formato tra le applicazioni mHealth. Se la maggior parte dei servizi sono integrati online, Bobii tende a fornire il suo servizio con un’impostazione più umana e prova a fare leva sul valore sociale della collaborazione tra le persone.
Bobii : a new collaborative encounter for diabetics
WANG, JEN-PANG
2015/2016
Abstract
This thesis examines current mHealth application responding to people with diabetes and caretakers. Diabetes, mHealth application and community are unfolded to be explored; accordingly a caring system is carried out with the objective of providing a minimal but meaningful platform, an expecting service and a newly-defined collaborative encounter for diabetics. The research were conducted through desktop research, questionnaire, interview and expert’s opinion. Desktop research comprised a variety of literature research and case study. It projects the established medical achievement to diabetes as well as existing product, service and business model in the market. The diversity of the research addressed from different sectors and case study broadened the perspectives, advising alternative approach to refine a new service journey. Questionnaire were distributed to people with diabetes with the aim of capturing a general user portrait in mHealth market. Interviews were conducted both with people with diabetes and associated caretakers. This process enabled the author to pin out the touchpoint and to reflect the pain points along the current user journey. Insights cultivated along the interview were transformed into indications to potential opportunities. Opinions from experts facilitated the author to understand the constrains in this field with a wilder perspective. Meanwhile, these also pointed out several ideas which were yet explored in the market. Following the research, four dimensions were addressed to define the service frame: carbohydrate counting, food logging, hypoglycemia management and empathy-and-support. Bobii, a caring system is designed to connect the dots: doctors, pharmacists, people with diabetes and caretakers on an application platform. Bobii looks at both daily care and emergency care related to diabetes. In emergency management, the collaborative encounter is created to support each other when hypoglycemia occurs. The guardian angel net includes all the stakeholders to dilute the burden; accordingly enhances the the welfare for the whole community. As to daily care, Bobii eliminates the complex of carbohydrate counting by providing a photo-matching nutrition database; consequently, it changes the way to do logbook from text input to photo capturing. The database will be constantly updated due to collective efforts contributed by the community. As to The design of Bobii subsequently suggests another formate of mHealth application: while most of the services are embedded online, Bobii tends to equip its online service with more human touch and also try to promote the social value written in this new collaborative encounter.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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