| Abstract Patient-oriented Design of Online Support Communities (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| This paper focuses on the process of designing and implementing an online support community for patients. After an introduction we describe a process for translating the socio-technical needs of cancer patients into system requirements as well as the development steps towards a functioning community platform for cancer patients. We combine a generic iterative process model for systems development with a prototyping approach towards an engineering process model for community platforms for cancer patients. We focus on specialties and challenges during the system development concerning user interface development and system requirements ’ analysis. The objective is to derive a model for developing community platforms that has a proven track of being applicable during system development 1 | |||||||||||||||
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