Cognition,Care,and Usability: Applying Cognitive Concepts to User Experience Design in Health and Medical Contexts

Abstract

Meeting the needs of users requires an understanding of the contexts where they interact with materials. This entry presents an approach for integrating script theory into usability to develop medical materials individuals can use in the settings where they receive or perform healthcare activities. The entry introduces technical communication professionals to script theory and presents mechanisms for using script theory to research patient expectations of and presents usable materials for health and medical contexts.

Keywords

care usability medical communication health communication user experience design context cognition psychology

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