An important case study on how to design social machines for healthcare contexts, this project investigates the Heart Manual Programme, a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme. Through various participatory design methods, our work on this project elicited the requirements for a social machine in this space and we carried out a proof of concept evaluation with a prototype.
Our prototype system was largely positively received and rated highly on system usability. Our work suggests that adopting a participatory approach where stakeholders are active, equal participants throughout the design process leads to more usable, likeable, and thus more successful social machines.
