title: PDA for health professionals: can you deal with that?
abstract: Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are being increasingly used on the health field, however, there are not many papers guiding a PDA-software development process concerning its usability in health field. This paper presents our experience dealing with PDAs regarding some elements of usability. We have shown that if simple yet extremely important points are to be observed before and during the development process, usability on PDA software can be greatly improved.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil.
authors.forename: Thiago M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.forename: Vladimir C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: Rogério F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Mauad
authors.forename: Daniel L A
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Afonso
authors.forename: Fabrício A B
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Domingos
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schor
authors.forename: Ivan T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Pisa
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006282:Health Personnel; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical