Prototyping a Multi-sided Health and Wellbeing Platform

Wally J.W. Keijzer-Broers, Lucas Florez-Atehortua, Mark De Reuver

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Abstract

A key challenge older adults face is the ability to live independently. Losing their everyday independence is a major concern for older adults. Partly, because they fear this could lead to an involuntary move to an assisted living facility instead of living independently. Since 2015, the Dutch government encourages their citizens to age-in-place, but at the same time struggles how to implement new healthcare regulations. To support both the government and the citizens, we propose an online platform to match supply and demand in the health and wellbeing domain. Such a platform should not only enable end-users to enhance self-management, but also support them to find solutions for everyday problems related to aging-in-place. To illustrate our action design research we established a Living Lab in a metropolitan area in the Netherlands, and developed a prototype of the proposed platform in a real-life setting. The usability of the alpha version of the platform is evaluated with six potential end-users. Their comments are input for next iterations where the ADR team will constantly observe the effects of the platform in a complex social process within the Living Lab setting.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Information Systems Development, ISD 2015
PublisherCity University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN (Electronic)9789624423938
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event24th International Conference on Information Systems Development, ISD 2015 - Harbin, China
Duration: 25 Aug 201527 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information Systems Development, ISD 2015

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Information Systems Development, ISD 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period25/08/1527/08/15

Keywords

  • Action Design Research
  • Health and wellbeing platform
  • Living Lab
  • Smart living

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