Prenatal

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Prenatal Nutritionist
Presented By Michael Roth Paul Capriolo Rebecca
Kadushin
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Requirements

• Hardware
• PDA- for running software
• PC- if you wish to upload data from PDA
• USB Port/Cable to connect PDA to PC
• Internet Connection
• An Internet connection is necessary for the
  transmittal of data between either the PDA and
  the Doctor or the PC and the Doctor. Note that
  an Internet connection is not necessary to run
  the software, only for sending data.

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Transfer Screenshots
Network Connection required to transfer data
Verification that data has been transmitted
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Intended Users

• Pregnant women
• Any range of computer skills
• Any age, weight, height, health status, medical
  problems, athletic ability
• Any stage of pregnancy
• Spouses, Friends, Family (of pregnant women)
• Any range of computer skills
• Desire to aid woman during pregnancy

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Easy To Use Interface
Users are familiar with paper forms very similar
Easy to select desired data
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Usability Test

• Consisted of ten (0xA) tasks
• In order of increased difficulty
• Was tested on young and mature adult women
• Results found both logical and technical errors
• Tested all aspects of user interface
• Entering contact information
• Entering food, exercise
• Uploading data to PC, send it to doctor
• Getting meal suggestions and checking risks
  prior to meals

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Old vs. Revised
Usability testing resulted in many efficient
changes
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Conclusions and Future Work

• If completed, we foresee great potential in
  providing a new type of aid for
  prenatal care that is currently unavailable.
• Future work should include
• Database backend
• Dynamic graphs (need the database to implement)
• Small PC script for uploading data onto PC and
  viewing the charts and graphs

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Functional Graphs
Database necessary to make food/exercise graphs
functional
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Thank You
Thanks to Dr. Shneiderman and Georg Apitz for
their support. Additional thanks to all those who
reviewed and tested our software and report. We
received great feedback!