The effect of non-linear structures on the usage of hypervideo for physical training

The growing number of elderly people combined with financial cuts in the health care sector lead to an increased demand for computer supported medical services. New standards like HTML5 allow the creation of hypervideo training applications that run on a variety of end user devices. In this paper, we evaluate an HTML5 player running an e-health hypervideo for the support of pelvic floor exercises. In an experimental test setting we compared the hypervideo to a primarily linear version regarding usability and utilization for self-controlled training. Our results show the hypervideo version leads to slightly more usability problems but facilitated a more active and individual training.