adaptive content, responsive design and medical information

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Adaptive Content, Responsive Design and Medical Information

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Charles Cooper – VP The Rockley Group


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Why do we do this?

• To communicate ‘stories’ to our readers.• Those stories can be:• Technical• Narrative• Informative, non-fiction• Graphical• Sales and marketing

• Any information that we want others know and remember


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We’ve used many techniques

• Face to face communication• Cave wall• Clay tablets• Scrolls• Handwritten books• Typeset books• Portable computers• Mobile phones & PDAs• eReaders• Smartphones• Tablets


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Wall Art– Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe


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• Face to face communication• Cave wall• Clay tablets• Scrolls• Handwritten books• Typeset books• Portable computers• Mobile phones & PDAs• eReaders• Smartphones• Tablets Clay tablet (87 BCE) describing the

arrival of Halley’s Comet– British Museum


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Book of Kells – Trinity College, Dublin


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Gutenberg Bible – Morgan Library NYC


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When most successful…

• We’ve adapted the way we display the content to match the medium

Book of Kells – Trinity College, Dublin


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We’re pretty good at migrating content


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The available technology used to be a problem


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This now fits in your pocket


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But the tech is finally here

• To deliver content, to anyone, any time, on any device, in any language.


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What is mobile?

• Five main types of mobile information delivery:• Traditional Web• Mobile Aware Web• Adaptive• Responsive• And blends

• Web Apps• Ebooks• Kindle• EPUB and variants

• Native Apps


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How do you define a mobile?

• It used to be easy

• If you could carry it, it was a mobile device.


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• That changed, and became related to screen size.

Luke Wroblewski - UXIM 2013


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Luke Wroblewski - UXIM 2013

• Then keyboard access became the defining feature.


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• Then it didn’t


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Our definitions of a mobile device keep changing


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We’re in the multi-device world

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Device_pile.jpg


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Not just ‘tablets’


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Some work better than others…


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Everyone uses mobile

• For recreation


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Everyone uses mobile

• And for health/wellness

• Wello case • ECG• Heart Rate• Blood Oxygen• Temperature• Lung Function (with spirometer add-on)• Blood Pressure https://

azoi.com

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3c6QdNhy1Aw


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Willing to access medical info on a smartphone

Manhattan Research - Cybercitizen Health® U.S. 2013, *ePharma Consumer® 2012


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Not just looking for information

• Pfizer partners with game designer Akili Interactive Labs • Project Evo• Hope to detect

indications of Alzheimer's in healthy individuals

http://mobihealthnews.com/28429/video-game-maker-partners-with-pfizer-for-alzheimers-clinical-trial/


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Health care professionals

• Are getting more of their information from digital sources

Manhattan Research - Taking the Pulse® 2013


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• Use a broad range of sources

Manhattan Research - Taking the Pulse® 2013


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Working together

• 30% of patients said they or their doctor used a mobile device during the exam period.

• Patient use of mobile is 30-50% higher if the doctor uses a mobile device during the exam.

• Patients were 80% more likely to switch medications if mobile devices were used in the exam room.

http://lifesciencesnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/10.24.2013-Digitas-Health-Study-Consumer-Mobile-Health-Impact-Assessment.pdf


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Working together

• Using dedicated apps to explain problems and treatments to patients as part of the examination

https://orcahealth.com/

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http://vimeo.com/76189894


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Working together


• Show animations



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Working together


• Show explanations



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Working together


• Share information



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New technologies abound

• Technical Illusions

• The ability to view projected, 3D images (of just about any data) in free space.

• Can interact with images via a ’magic wand’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8h-Mauc-E

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8h-Mauc-E


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• Are beginning to see tests of integrated mobile device systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnEdaslPtEg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnEdaslPtEg


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IRL - now

“When a clinician walks into an emergency department room, he or she looks at bar code (a QR or Quick Response code) placed on the wall. Wearable Intelligence’s software running on Google Glass immediately recognizes the room and then the ED Dashboard sends information about the patient in that room to the glasses, appearing in the clinician’s field of vision. The clinician can speak with the patient, examine the patient, and perform procedures while seeing problems, vital signs, lab results and other data.”

http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2014/04/google-glass-details.html

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee, a full Professor at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing Emergency Physician


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Interoperability


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http://powerofwho.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/quite_a_road_block.jpg


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Lots of catching up to do…

“Our maiden Digital Competitive Landscape survey last fall found that less than a third of pharma U.S. consumer-facing websites were mobile optimized.”

Matthew Arnold, Principal Analyst, Manhattan Research

http://healthandpharmainsight.tumblr.com/post/80991320870/will-pharmas-be-ready-for-healthbook


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Enter Responsive Design


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Responsive (web) Design

• Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design

http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design


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Responsive Design

• I like responsive design

• I’m so over this >>>>


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Responsive Design

• Reflects what can easily be seen on the screen

• Low bandwidth friendly

• Ignore the visual design


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Visual design is not content design


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Don’t think it’s always easy…

• The website for LG’s android powered watch (a mobile device!) viewed in the ‘wrong’ orientation


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Don’t think it’s always easy…


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No better on a ‘big screen’


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Properly Done Responsive Design


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TRG website on a laptop


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TRG website on an iPad Mini


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TRG website on iPhone 4s


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What’s wrong with that?


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What’s wrong with that?

Nothing – but what if I need more functionality?


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Enter Adaptive Content


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What is adaptive content?

• Adaptive Content is content that adapts to the needs of the user or reader, responding not only to the screen size and orientation of their device, but is aware of, and takes advantage of the specific device capabilities (such as GPS, magnetometers, etc.) to display content to the best advantage on the device.


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Adaptive vs Responsive

• Responsive• Focused on displaying

the content in the best possible way on a given device

• Adaptive• An overall approach for

enhancing the usability or capability of content on a given device


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Adaptive content

• Adaptive content is limited only by your design decisions, the capabilities of the device being used, and the intelligence of your content.


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MyAsthma app

• Developed by GSK in the UK• Updated information on weather,

temperature, pollen and pollution for your local area

• Handy personalised reminders and tips sent directly to your mobile device

• The Asthma Control Test™ and regular reports to help you monitor your asthma control

• Tailored information about how to identify and manage your asthma triggers

• Tips on travelling with asthma• Customised lifestyle tips and

information on treatments• How to get the most from working

together with your healthcare professional


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How do you manage this?


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Decide what mobile means to you

• Remember this?


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Mobile Aware Web

• Responsive Design• Screen size• Orientation• Progressive Content Disclosure


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Mobile Aware Web

• Adaptive Design• All of the above PLUS• Location*• Direction*• Language*• Speed*• Acceleration*

* depends on browser used on device


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Web App

• Like having a customised mini browser in which to display your content

• No content lives on the device• Connectivity is required


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Native Apps

• All of the above• Screen size• Orientation• Progressive Content Disclosure• Location• Direction• Language• Speed• Acceleration• ALL THE DATA, ALL THE TIME!• But can reach out to external sources


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How much info can an app determine?

• More information than you require


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Location-based information

• It knows where you are, but the direction you’re facing is unimportant

• App has full access to the capabilities of the device• GPS• Wifi or• 3/4G connectivity


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Augmented Reality

• Using AR to explore an unfamiliar location

• App has full access to the capabilities of the device• Compass• GPS• Camera• Wifi or• 3/4G connectivity


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So you’re going to do an App, right?

• There are downsides

• More expensive


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• Only works on one device/family


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• Experiences will be very different from system to system


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• You have to think it all the way through• You have to reimagine it on a regular basis

• It’s not all bad• On the positive side, you can load all the data

‘into’ the app• You have full control over the experience


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Talk to the hand (set)

• Works with apps• Not as simple as Media

Queries• Much more reliable

• Code fragment querying the device to see if it has a magnetometer (compass) and if it’s working


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Mobile Aware with Adaptive

• Many of the advantages of an App

• Usually much cheaper• Can access many of the device functions• Easier to rollout (just change the referenced data)• Easier to make work on multiple platforms


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Media Queries

• Simple idea – why don’t we ask the device about itself?

• Part of the available meta information from a webpage

• How big is the content area on the screen? - use the ‘viewport’ query

• Protip – sometimes the devices lie

<meta name="viewport"content="width=device-width"content="height=device-height" />


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Are people doing this?


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Yeah – sometimes all of them


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WebMD traditional site


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WebMD mobile site


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WebMD apps


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WebMD Allergy app

• Personal data tracking• Multiple profiles• Location (gathers local

information)


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Where can it go?


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Remember this?

• That was an ad!

• The IRL they use QR codes to determine the room they were in.• That could be replaced

with automatic location detection.

• If the ambulance has it’s siren on, an ‘urgent’ flag could be sent to the primary care facility…


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You need a Content Strategy


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You need a Content Strategy

Not a Mobile Content Strategy

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Where does Content Strategy Start?

• Right at the beginning

• Not restricted to:• Content creation• Publishing/Printing• Translation• Localisation• Mobile

• All are important facets of an overall method


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• Without a content strategy none of this works.


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You need to understand:

• Structure• Modularity and Granularity• Metadata• Your users• Your content


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It’s all about the content


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It’s not “all about the content”…

• It’s about balance


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Balance


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Content

• Determine primary content to display• What can be layered/scrolled?• How does the content need to be structured to

facilitate filtering/layering/scrolling?• What content should be eliminated and in what

situation?• What alternate content should be presented?• How must your content be structured to support

this functionality?• Can you structure your content for unexpected

situations?


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…and how your customer will experience it

• Know your customer• Know your device constraints• Map their requirements to content requirements


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Know your customer

• Who are the primary customers?• What language do they use?• Where do they live?• What the typical customer profile?• Where do your customers come from

(region/country, referring site, search engine)?• What platform are they using: Smartphone, Tablet,

Phablet (OS)?• What do customers need to know to make a buying

decision?• What do they think are the most effective ways to

be reached?


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Know your device constraints

• Even though you should write content separate from its eventual output, you must understand the constraints of the device on which your content will be displayed.

• Design your models to adapt to those constraints.


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Test on actual devices

http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC-DEVICES&Category_Code=QC


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Like regular ”writing for online”

• But more so…• Keep titles short • Keep content short• Use bulleted lists• Balance brevity with legibility and clarity• Carefully consider the use of

charts/tables/images. • They may be the best way to present

information on a page, but are problematic on a small screen.


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Tables

• Tables are always an issue on mobile. Some options include:• Tables where screen real estate permits• Image of the table• Modularized table• Fixed first column, scrolling remainder• Cascading list• Drill down

• Tables are inherently structured, you need to map your table structure to desired output

• Why are you using a table?


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Navigation is key• Navigation can be a challenge, due to small screen

size.• Try not to break content into too many pages, one

page per item/article is usually better, even if the page is loooong.

• Flatten the hierarchy. • Drilling down to reach content is problematic.• Cluster like information together• Use ”more like this” or ”related content” links to

make it easy for the user to navigate• Images should not be used for navigation, and

should never be used as the only means of navigation.


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Business rules

• Business rules are the rules that your content follows to adapt to different devices and different customer requirements.

• Business rules allow the system to automatically pick and choose content and adjust the presentation of that content to meet specific requirements.

• If ‘this’ then ‘that’ • If displaying on a mobile device break content

into ‘pages’ at the intro, ingredients and instructions

• Integral to your complete content strategy


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Format free content: XML

• XML lets you separate content from layout and visual design• Like HTML, but focuses on

structure, not appearance• Can use one of many

underlying structural schemas• DITA• DITA4Publishers• DocBook• Industry specific

• Very powerful for transformation and reconfiguration for multiple channels

Concerned about XML? Don’t be, even Word uses a form of XML “under the hood’.


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But!

• Technology is not the focus for content contributors and never should be

• Tools should support tasks, not impede tasks• Tools must enable your content strategy

<?xml version="1.0"?><procedure> <title>Logging On to AccSoft </title> <p>The first time you click on a component in AccSoft you are required to log on to the system.</p> <intro>To log on to AccSoft:</intro> <procedure_steps> <step>Double-click the AccSoft application.</step> <step>Select Accounts Payable from the Explorer.</step> <step>Type your USERID into the Name field.</step> <step>Type your password into the Password field.</step> <step product="extended">Select the customer to update.</step> <step>Click the OK button to log on to AccSoft.</step> </procedure_steps> <note>If you do not know your USERID or Password, consult your System Administrator. </note></procedure>


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But!

• If your technology makes your employees look like this… you’re doing it wrong!

• It must be easy to use


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Summary

• Determine your ‘concept of mobile’.• Know what content is required, by whom, when, in

what circumstance, and in conjunction with what other content or interactivity.

• Create structured content separate from format.• Create a balanced design, not Mobile first or eBook

first or Video first or Poster first or Content first or Package Insert first…. but always with an awareness of where and how content can be consumed.

• Remember – mobile is expected, it’s not something special!


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Questions?

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