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Título
An App to Support Yoga Teachers to Implement a Yoga-Based Approach to Promote Wellbeing Among Young People: Usability Study
Autor(es)
Assunto
Mobile app
Heuristic evaluation
Yoga
Mental health
Wellbeing
Usability
European project
Clasificación UNESCO
1203.17 Informática
3212 Salud Publica
Fecha de publicación
2019
Citación
A. García-Holgado, I. Tajes Reiris, N. A. Kearney, C. Martinus and F. J. García-Peñalvo, "An App to Support Yoga Teachers to Implement a Yoga-Based Approach to Promote Wellbeing Among Young People: Usability Study," in Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Design, Experiences. 6th International Conference, LCT 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 26–31, 2019. Proceedings, Part I, P. Zaphiris and A. Ioannou, Eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. LNCS 11590, pp. 38-49, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2019. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21814-0_4.
Resumen
Many young people suffer from chronic stress and other issues that
inhibit the functioning and development of the prefrontal cortex, and this also
affects their intrinsic motivation to engage in any activity. In short, unless their
well-being is addressed, they cannot engage effectively. The HIPPOCAMPUS
project aims to address these issues by promoting the well-being of young
people through the practice of a range of techniques derived from yoga. Yuva
Yoga app is part of the approach to support the yoga-based practices with young
people. It is a multiplatform mobile app developed as Backend as a Service both
for Android and iOS. The first public version of the mobile app is part of the
pilots implemented in the schools involved in the project, but there is not a
special focus on the usability of the app. This work presents the heuristic
evaluation of Yuva Yoga for iOS carried out by four experts as part of a major
usability study that combines heuristic techniques, both iOS and Android, and
empirical methods with users. Some problems were detected during the evaluation,
but more of the problems have a low priority rating. They are mainly
cosmetic problems that do not need to be fixed unless extra time is available on
the project, or minor usability problems. The results have provided an important
input to develop a new minor version of the mobile app, in order to improve the
user experience in the pilots at schools.
URI
ISSN
0302-9743
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-21814-0_4
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