About
My PhD follows the working title "Experiences in chronic care. How can design support the integration of chronic illness into a patient's daily life." This thesis investigates whether design theory and method can help to better integrate care practices in chronic illness into a patients daily life. By reconsidering typologies of care and their continuous nature care practices can be influenced or changed for patients suffering from chronic diseases.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Designing an intelligent gamified solution for treatment of scoliosis among children and adolescents
This PhD project focuses on understanding needs of youth with idiopathic scoliosis and to examine how the needs can be improved by using a digital solution – e.g. a smartphone application.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Jacoby, Julia Miriam Andrea
(2019).
Systematic Review of Mobile Phone Apps Currently Available to Norwegian Users to Support Diabetes Self-management.
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS).
Vol. 1034.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23525-3_62