Assessing Interaction Strategies for Health IT: An Entropy Based Approach. Issue 1 (June 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Xiaomei; Berg, Rebecca; McGeorge, Nicolette; LaVergne, David; Benda, Natalie; Bisantz, Ann
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. Volume 7:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 82
• Page End: 86
• Publication Date: 2018-06
• Subjects: Human engineering -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Periodicals; 620.8
• DOI: 10.1177/2327857918071017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2327-8579

Abstract

We proposed new metrics based on information entropy to capture characteristics of screen use and switching among information display screens. These metrics reflect differences in the regularity of the time spent on each screen/display or the number of visits to each screen/display. We also provided simulation and case study to demonstrate the sensitivity and usefulness of the metrics.