Using WebTV to Deliver Health Information Into the Home: Experiences, Successes and Regrets

Abstract Commercial consumer electronics provide inexpensive, easy-to-use devices that solve some of the problems of insuring access to WWW-based health information resource by lay people. Using WebTV‘ persons recovering from cardiac surgery connect to a WWW-based cardiac rehabilitation service. In this demonstration participants will manipulate the WebTV device, view the HeartCare resource, and learn of our experiences in usability, design and training considerations.