IS4ALL: a working group promoting universal design in Health Telematics.
In this article, we present an overview of the work being carried out by the EC-funded project IS4ALL (IST-1999-14101). Specifically, we describe the methodological frame of reference, which drives the project's objective to introduce universal access principles into the design of Health Telematics applications and services. Health Telematics is chosen due to some distinctive characteristics, such as the variety of end users involved, the changing healthcare contexts of use and the penetration of new computer-mediated activities, which re-shape the way in which healthcare practices are structured and organized.
Stephanidis
Constantine
C
Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas Science and Technology Park of Crete Heraklion, Crete, GR-71110 Greece.
Akoumianakis
Demosthenes
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de Moor
Georges
G
D005062:European Union; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface