Design Team

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Asthma Management System
Design Team Stuart Bartow  Raef Haggag Mara
Hemminger Chase Ighani Daniel Lidor
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Introduction

• Goals for AccuLung System
• Provide a mobile resource for tracking asthma
  symptoms and history.
• Provide a graphical view of users asthma
  history.
• Track environmental conditions related to asthma
  triggers.
• Help prevent imminent asthma attacks.

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Application Requirements

• PDA with color display
• Wireless capabilities
• Digital Peak Flow Meter with IR port

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Project Tour
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Usability Procedure

• Users4 asthmatics and 5 non-asthmatics
• Tasks
• Set up a patient profile
• Record data from a Peak Expiratory Flow test
• Check recent test result trends graph results
  - compare
• View current environmental conditions
• Pollen Count
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Air Quality Index
• Save History, medications list and other
  information

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Usability Findings

• Graph too difficult to read
• Environment button not easy to locate
• Enter Manually button crashes if no data is
  entered
• Color choice buttons and environment readings
  to give meaning
• Add personal best to graph
• Move/Add export button to graph page

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Future Plans

• More robust graphing capabilities.
• Environmental Triggers
• Medications
• Multiple user tracking
• Record asthma triggers
• Develop physician version

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Acknowledgments

• Dr. Shneiderman
• Adam Perer
• Study participants
• Dr. Scharfstein
• Our reviewers