Wearable epilepsy seizure monitor user interface evaluation

Rukasha, Tendai; Woolley, Sandra I; Collins, Tim

Abstract

Wearable health devices have the potential to incentivize individuals in health-promoting behaviors and to assist in the monitoring of health conditions. Wearable epilepsy seizure monitoring devices are now evolving that can support individuals and their caregivers via the automated sensing, reporting and logging of epileptic seizures. This work contributes a novel reflection on the interface requirements of wearer users and non-wearer stakeholder users. We evaluate the "guessability" of the light pattern interface of the Empatica Embrace wrist-worn epileptic seizure monitor and provide box plot results for eight interface indications. We also report summarised feedback from a heuristic analysis with fourteen participant evaluators. The results indicate some satisfaction with the minimal aesthetic of a simple light pattern interface as well as some concerns about confusion between different indications, accessibility and reliance on recall.

Citation

Rukasha, T., Woolley, S. I., & Collins, T. (in press). Wearable epilepsy seizure monitor user interface evaluation. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414382

• Conference Name: UbiComp/ISWC '20 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Conference Location: Virtual Event (Mexico Based)
• Start Date: Sep 12, 2020
• End Date: Sep 17, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Jul 24, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Sep 12, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 26, 2023
• Pages: 110–114
• Series Title: UbiComp/ISWC '20: 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• ISBN: 9781450380768
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414382
• Keywords: Wearable Computing; Interface Evaluation; Health Technology; Epilepsy Monitoring; Heuristic Evaluation; Usability
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3410530.3414382
• Related Public URLs: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3410530