User-Centered Development of an Information System in Patient’s Motor Capacity Evaluation

Many medical devices are created and rejected because of their lack of adequacy to the clinician needs and situation. The implication of a clinician in the design process may prevents the creation of solution than seems pushed to the users but on the contrary create a solution calibrated to their usages. In this paper a UCD cycle was applied to the development of an information system for patients’ motor evaluation using the motion analysis sensor Kinect. The system should support the therapist in its evaluations and provide a way to improve the evaluation. The context exploration, requirements definition, solution proposition and adequacy evaluation was applied. The model allowed to emphasize the important design aspects and those who were correctly answered but also the revisions needed for a second UCD cycle to generate an acceptable device.