Universal Access in Health Telematics: A Design Code of Practice

The information society is bringing about radical changes in the way people work and interact with each other and with information. There is an obvious need to consolidate progress by means of establishing a common vocabulary and a code of design practice, which addresses the specific challenges posed by universal access. IS4ALL, Information Society for All, is a European Commission funded thematic network that is devoted to consolidating and codifying available knowledge of universal access in the context of health telematics in a principled way.

This book reports the most representative findings of the IS4ALL Consortium towards establishing a validated code of universal access practice in health informatics. The book opens with a systematic introduction and then presents a variety of scenario-driven methods and approches for interactive software design.