Title :
Closing the Evaluation Gap in UbiHealth Research
Author :
Intille, Stephen S.
Author_Institution :
Northeastern University
Abstract :
Much is to be learned from working with health science research teams closely on longer-term projects to evaluate technology-enabled interventions that support health and wellness. The author´s participation on a long-term randomized clinical trial, which has required substantial technical development and maintenance efforts, has provided valuable insight into difficult problems of ensuring long-term engagement and making long-term study administration manageable.
Keywords :
Behavioral science; Clinical trials; Medical treatment; Patient monitoring; Ubiquitous computing; behavior change; healthcare; pervasive computing; prototype evaluation; randomized clinical trial; ubihealth;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2013.28