An Evaluation Framework for EU Research and Development e-Health Projects’ Systems

Mavridis, Apostolos; Katriou, Stamatia-Ann; Koumpis, Adamantios

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_2

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“…Mavridis et al [13] define a framework to evaluate the quality of the systems resulting from R&D projects in e-health based on three levels: i) system architecture, determines the degree to which an architecture satisfies quality objectives; ii) system software, uses the ISO/IEC 14598 standard [14] that indicates how, when, who, and what should be measured, as well as the ISO/IEC 9126 -2 & 3 standards [15] to measure the internal and external quality, and, iii) system prototype, applies the ISO/IEC 9126 -4 standard [15] that provides characteristics and metrics of quality in use to evaluate the prototypes used by end users in real scenarios. A limitation of this work is that the ISO/IEC 9126 standard used has been replaced by ISO/IEC 25010.…”

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A Quality in Use Model for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Systems

Erazo-Garzon

Illescas

Cedillo

2021

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims to improve the people's quality of life, especially vulnerable groups, with the support of information technologies, increasing the autonomy, self-confidence and mobility of the users in their daily activities. Hence, it is essential to know the end-user's opinion about the perceived quality when using an AAL system in terms of the degree of satisfaction of their real needs and achieved objectives. However, since AAL is a relatively new domain, existing quality models are limited, with an incomplete set of attributes and metrics. Therefore, this research proposes a quality in use model for AAL systems focused on the followings characteristics: effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, freedom from risk, and context coverage; and their corresponding metrics adjusted to the AAL domain. Finally, the proposed model has been applied as a guideline during the evaluation of an intelligent pillbox. The results of this application have proven that this model is a valuable tool for evaluating the results and effects of using an AAL system from the perspectives of either a primary user (e.g., elderly people, people with special needs, patients) or a secondary user (e.g., family, caregivers). Consequently, it identifies essential aspects that contribute to improving the quality of those systems.

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confidence: 99%