Digital Platform to Provide Health Data Feedback for Neurorehabilitation Patients: User-Centered Development and Proof-of-Concept Usability Study
Nadine Domnik, Katarzyna Krasnopolska, Ramona Sylvester, Jens Bansi, Jaeyong Song, Roman Gonzenbach, Olivier Lambercy · 2026
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Nadine Domnik and colleagues present a 2026 journal article on building a phone app that shows rehabilitation patients their own health data in plain form. Rehab clinics collect many test results that rarely reach patients in an understandable way. The RehaLink app was co-designed at one rehabilitation center with seventeen inpatients with multiple sclerosis and fifteen health professionals.
Across three feedback rounds, both groups preferred progress bars and color-coded indicators over text-heavy displays. Patients wanted simplicity yet also asked for exact values and comparisons with norms, a tension designers must balance. Professionals underestimated how informative patients wanted the displays to be. Perceived value rose over the study, and usability scores were high, 93.6 from patients and 80.9 from professionals on a hundred-point scale.
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| CREATOR | Nadine Domnik, Katarzyna Krasnopolska, Ramona Sylvester, Jens Bansi, Jaeyong Song, Roman Gonzenbach, Olivier Lambercy |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68891 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |