title: Evaluation methodology for a medical e-education patient-oriented information system.
abstract: This paper describes an evaluation methodology designed for the IMSA (Interactive Multimedia System for Auto-medication) system. IMSA stands in the multidisciplinary field of medical informatics and aims at providing a health care Internet tool for the general public. As far as a medical information system is patient-oriented, issues in understanding content and of human - computer interface usability are key factors to achieve success. The team developing IMSA concentrated part of its work on designing an evaluation methodology to ensure that the system is user-friendly and responds in a way that can be easily understood by the general public. This methodology is built on a three-tier architecture with the user, the evaluator and a set of medical case descriptions. The testing protocol is based on a user trying to run scenarios related to mild clinical signs on the IMSA prototype under the passive presence of an evaluator.
authors.affiliation: Université de Marne la Vallée, Laboratoire ISIS, France. ocure@univ-mlv.fr
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Curé
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008509:Medication Systems; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D012646:Self Administration; D014584:User-Computer Interface