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Authors:
Karin Ahlin
Awais Ahmad
Peter Mozelius
Keywords: HCI; stroke rehabilitation; independent living; speech therapy; requirements
Abstract:
This paper analyses and discusses the identified requirements for technology enhanced systems for speech rehabilitation after a stroke. To stroke patients, a speech injury can be devastating, impacting their abilities to speak, listen, read, and write. Therefore, speech therapy is recommended as early as possible. To address the challenge with a growing percentage of older adults, therapy should include a variety of Technology Enhanced Systems (TES) to support the idea of independent living. These systems must be adapted to the patients’ needs and speech therapy requirements. Based on a design science approach, requirements were determined from an analysis of ten semistructured interviews with knowledgeable informants. Findings indicate several important requirements, such as: TES should be motivating, joyful, individualised and built on patients’ needs and on speech therapists’ professional knowledge. Furthermore, TES services must be user-friendly and provide training in each patient’s mother tongue. Added to these requirements are ease of including close relatives as supporting persons, as well as accessibility through portable devices.
Pages: 20 to 27
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019
Publication date: September 22, 2019
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4553
ISBN: 978-1-61208-742-9
Location: Porto, Portugal
Dates: from September 22, 2019 to September 26, 2019