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Developing Design Guidelines for a Visual Vocabulary of Electronic Medical Information to Improve Health Literacy

Author(s) -

Xiaojuan Ma

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

interacting with computers

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1873-7951

pISSN - 0953-5438

DOI - 10.1093/iwc/iwv025

Subject(s) - comprehension , health literacy , recall , graphics , computer science , vocabulary , set (abstract data type) , salient , visual literacy , literacy , health care , multimedia , medical education , human–computer interaction , psychology , medicine , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics education , linguistics , philosophy , pedagogy , computer graphics (images) , economics , programming language , economic growth

Poor health literacy, or the ability to interpret and make judgments about one's health, affects the effectiveness of healthcare services and people's quality of life. We explored design principles on how to design visually salient, legible and interpretable medical graphics to promote comprehension and recall of electronic medical diagnostic information, an essential component of personal health ...

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