Title:	PATIENT-INITIATED PERSONALISATION: PRIVACY, MOODS AND COLOURS
Author(s):	Maja van der Velden, Margaret Machniak Sommervold, Alma Leora Culén
ISBN:	978-989-8533-42-5
Editors:	Mário Macedo, Claire Gauzente, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Guo Chao Peng
Year:	2015
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Participatory design, personal health technologies, privacy, self-management, teenage patients
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	95
Last Page:	103
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Personalisation can improve the acceptability and prolonged use of a product. This paper reports on the use of colours in user-initiated personalisation of privacy settings and a mood tracker. Colours and their associations were discussed in participatory design activities with young patients (13-21 years old) in a children's hospital in Canada and in Norway and explored in a survey among university students. Colours are an effective way to personalise data. The young patients preferred to select their own colours for the personalisation of data and that colour associations and preferences should be re-configurable during the use of the technology. We found that in the case of the privacy settings that re-configuration could lead to privacy risks. We illustrate our findings by presenting two prototypes we designed with and for young people with chronic health challenges. The first one shows the use of colours in privacy settings in a social networking site for teenage patients and the second one shows the use of colours in the mood tracking function of a mobile application supporting teens in their transition to adult health care.
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