Intervention Interaction Design

 The process of moving digital health from its existing state to a preferred state to optimize interactions between patients and digital health interventions. It refers to personalized design, information design, navigation design, interface design, and design procedures.

For example, being able to choose the topic, content and language of received messages, select the timing and frequency of the delivered interventions were appreciated by patients.

What are positive, negative, and double-edged factors?

These categories were classified into positive, negative, and double-edged factors based on their positive, negative, and diverse impacts on digital PEx. 

  • Positive Factors describe the advantageous or beneficial attributes

  • Negative Factors describe the disadvantages or detrimental attributes.

  • Double-Edged Factors describe attributes that have both beneficial and harmful sides.

Personalized design

POSITIVE

  • Individualized feedback, tailored features, or customization

  • Be able to choose the topic, content, and language of received messages

  • Be able to select the timing and frequency of the delivered interventions

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Design Procedures

POSITIVE

  • User-centered design or human-centered design

  • Interorganizational collaboration

  • Co-design or participatory development methodology

  • Inclusive design

  • Involvement of multistakeholder and multidisciplinary teams in the early design stages

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Navigation Design

POSITIVE

  • Instruction manuals and extra user training

  • Technical support or assistance

  • Interactive elements

NEGATIVE

  • Lack of clear navigation or instruction design

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Visual Design

POSITIVE

  • Visualized health data

  • Tailored, attention-grabbing, simple, and consistent layout design (eg, appealing graphic presentation, pleasing and coherent color scheme, high text quantity, suitable font and interface size, and striking button appearance and location)

  • Unobtrusive wearable devices

NEGATIVE

  • Unappealing user interfaces

  • Poorly crafted interface

  • Low visibility of the content

  • Bulkiness

  • Nonportability

  • Small screen or font size

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Information Design

POSITIVE

  • A reliable, trusted, credible information source

  • An unmarked sender

  • Multimedia messages

  • Detailed and comprehensive information

  • Diverse and updated information

  • A short, concise, personalized, clear, and direct message

  • Formal or clinical language for some functions (description of pathologies)

  • Informal language for others (evaluation of conduct)

  • A motivational, friendly, encouraging, polite, respectful, congratulatory, personalized, upbeat, positive, humorous, and relatable tone

  • Layered medication information and warnings from basic to advanced

NEGATIVE

  • Overload of information

  • Technical language

DOUBLE-EDGED

  • Information source

  • Information language