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User-centric mobile app concept design for longitudinal fatigue tracking : supporting rheumatoid arthritis self-management
Tsanov, Danail (2025) User-centric mobile app concept design for longitudinal fatigue tracking : supporting rheumatoid arthritis self-management.
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| Abstract: | This thesis focuses on creating a longitudinal app that can be used for unobtrusive recordings for Rheumatoid Arthritis users who suffer from fatigue episodes and on proposing a business case. These fatigue episodes are unpredictable and render patients unable to conform to their daily plans. They have expressed the need for a personalized monitoring system that can track fatigue objectively with minimal obtrusiveness and predict it. To achieve this, an initial competitor screening, literature review and a study on integrating patient self-monitoring and rheumatologist insights on data privacy, usability and clinical integration were conducted. A list of final app requirements was made, from which, a selected few were focused on based on the aim of the work. An ideation phase consisted of combining this selection into a recording concept. After a matrix analysis the superior choice was made into a prototype app. This enabled a second study to be conducted on obtrusiveness to compare frequency and duration parameters to user preference of the chosen recording mechanism. The business case evaluates market analysis, competitive landscape and value proposition, concluding with a lean canvas model. Analysis of results reveals future work recommendations and user recording preferences. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | TNW: Science and Technology |
| Subject: | 50 technical science in general |
| Programme: | Biomedical Engineering MSc (66226) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107789 |
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