Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar for the first of two talks being given by CSE grad students at the upcoming ACM DEV <http://acmdev.org/> conference. Samia Ibtasam will be presenting work on a smartphone immunization information system for digital record keeping in Punjab Pakistan.
This work was done while Samia was at the Information Technology Univeristy <http://itu.edu.pk/> in Lahore with her colleagues Amna Batool, Umair Ali, Muhammad Salman Khalid, Umar Saif, Mustafa Naseem *What:* Iterative Design of an Immunization Information System in Pakistan *When: *Tuesday, Nov. 8 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Routine early age child immunization is one of the most costeffective public health interventions. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as Immunization Information Systems (IIS) to improve efficiency of vaccination programs has shown mixed but encouraging results in terms of success. The objective of this paper is to present evidence of Evaccs – a successfully deployed smartphone based vaccinator monitoring app, discuss the need to create a smartphone enabled IIS (called Har Zindagi – every life matters) that can store digital records of every child, discuss various design and implementation features of Har Zindagi’s android application, and present findings of the usability testing performed on the Har Zindagi android app. Given that the vaccinators are non tech-savvy, and the real estate on a smartphone is limited, this application was particularly designed to allow easy record entry process, and smoothen the workflow. This paper builds upon previous work on user interface design for lowliterate users, and identifies techniques to iteratively design interfaces with government employees, who may be uncomfortable with giving usability feedback due to fear of repercussions or might have different field reality when compared to their supervisors and policy makers.
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