Personalization

The personalization construct identifies patient profiles and tailors digital health according to patients’ needs and preferences.

What does design consideration mean?

Notably, there was an overlap between design considerations and influencing factors. The former focuses on concluding possible design suggestions, recommendations, and implications proposed by the reviewed articles. The latter involves mapping the impacts of interaction design on digital PEx in different contexts; therefore, they refer to different themes and references.

Profiling

CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Careful patient selection for DH use;

  2. Assess specific metrics (e.g., sociodemographic characteristics, basic health status, individual preferences, habits);

  3. Create an accurate patient profile.

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Tailoring

CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Provide personalized information, tailored intervention content, and customized feedback (e.g., predicted possible causes and consequences of a health problem and advice on the behavior under investigation);

  2. Tailor the content to the user’s needs and preferences;

  3. Tailor images, colors, text quantity, and font size and color to what users find appealing;

  4. Tailor multiple variables rather than a single variable;

  5. Align with end users’ habitual routines.

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Autonomy

CONSIDERATIONS

  1. Choose desirable and accessible forms of delivery;

  2. Choose when and how to receive reminders;

  3. Select or change personalized goals for future use throughout the time span of intervention;

  4. Select preferred styles (e.g., color, font).