Mobile Application Design Emergency Medical Call for the Deaf using UCD Method

Authors

  • Risald Risald Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta
  • Suyoto Suyoto Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta
  • Albertus Joko Santoso Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v12i3.8754

Keywords:

Deaf, Healthy Phone, User-Centered Design, Emergency call, The Iconography interface,

Abstract


Deaf or hearing loss is a condition of inability to hear something, either totally or partially. Hearing loss greatly affects the life of a person in communicating with the people around him. Deaf people will be very difficult when in a medical emergency, this is because the medical emergency situation requires fast action.

          The Healthy Phone application is a mobile medical emergency call application that can help people with hearing impaired when in emergency situations. With the Healthy Phone application, the user only needs to select an icon that suits the situation encountered in touchscreen mobile device then the message will be sent to the nearest hospital.

                To search for icons corresponding to emergencies, the User Centered Design (UCD) method is used. This application is very helpful for deaf people because this application does not require audio communication and user location is also sent automatically to the nearest hospital. The results were analyzed using four emergency event scenarios with a total score of 87% and an average user time of less than 0:42 sec indicating that the study was successful in designing a mobile medical emergency call application according to user requirements.

Author Biographies

Risald Risald, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta

Student Master of Information Engineering

Suyoto Suyoto, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta

Lecturer of Informatics Engineering

Albertus Joko Santoso, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta

Lecturer of Informatics EngineeringMobile Application Design Emergency Medical Call for the Deaf using UCD Method

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Published

2018-07-20

How to Cite

Risald, R., Suyoto, S., & Santoso, A. J. (2018). Mobile Application Design Emergency Medical Call for the Deaf using UCD Method. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 12(3), pp. 168–177. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v12i3.8754

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