A mobile tool for accessibility and usability testing of medical instrumentation

Author

Lemke, Melissa R. ; Winters, Jack M. ; Danturthi, Sarma ; Campbell, Sean ; Story, Molly Follette ; Barr, Alan ; Rempel, David M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

1-5 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

4920

Lastpage

4923

Abstract

The Mobile Usability Lab (MU-Lab) is a tool developed by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Medical Instrumentation (RERC-AMI) to study the accessibility and usability of medical devices by people with diverse abilities. The system includes a suite of data collection hardware components and a custom software interface to help coordinate problem identification and planning as well as data collection and analysis for usability and accessibility research of medical devices. Hardware components include a laptop computer, data acquisition card, video cameras, quad video processor and wireless microphones. Software components include a customized Web-based usability suite, real-time data collection package and several video editing and data analysis tools.

Keywords

Internet; biomedical equipment; data acquisition; health care; laptop computers; microphones; patient diagnosis; patient rehabilitation; video cameras; Mobile Usability Lab; custom software interface; customized Web-based usability suite; data acquisition card; data analysis tools; data collection hardware components; device accessibility; laptop computer; medical devices; medical instrumentation; mobile tool; patient diagnosis; patient rehabilitation; quad video processor; real-time data collection package; usability analysis method; video cameras; video editing tools; wireless microphones; Biomedical engineering; Cameras; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Hardware; Instruments; Medical tests; Microphones; Portable computers; Usability; Accessibility; accessible design; ergonomics; medical instrumentation; universal design; usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8439-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1404360

Filename

1404360