Evaluating designs against users requirements in Latin America: an experience of human-centred methods, techniques and tools on a low budget.

BAUM, ANALÍA J.; MAURO, ALEJANDRO; LUNA, DANIEL R.; GONZÁLEZ, B. DE QUIRÓS F.

Congreso; 12th World Congress on Health Informatics MEDINFO 2007; 2007

Informatics designs centered on the human being are multidisciplinary activities which demand a knowledge of the human factors related to human-computer interaction, the ergonomics of the work and of different evaluation techniques. The Medical Informatics Department of the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires has gradually implemented a full-scale HIS since 199 and is also responsible for periodically evaluating user interfaces. Using qualitative techniques, diverse problems in the problem management interfaces were found and led to multiple modifications in this section of the HER. Using The Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction we evaluate the new interface. The results show that the doctors found the new Problem Administrator easy to use, and there was high overall user satisfaction