A pregnancy-record app for ASHA health workers

Interaction Design (in the exam: answer any ONE of Questions 1–5) ASHA workers are local women in the villages who are trained as health educators and monitors. One key function that they do is monitor and maintain the health record of pregnant women in the village. Currently they maintain records using booklets. Now that every ASHA worker has a smart phone of her own and most villages have mobile networks, the ministry of health has decided to create a smart phone application to maintain the records. This is expected to reduce the errors in digitising data, improve the speed with which the data reaches the government, and enable better monitoring of health outcomes. Consider the following scenario: 1. Amruta is an ASHA worker. She knows that Parvati has been pregnant since 6 months. She visits Parvati’s home and opens the smartphone application. Parvati has already been registered in the database on Amruta’s phone. Amruta retrieves Parvati’s records. 2. The records include demographic information about Parvati such as name, age, existing children etc. as well as the earlier recorded pregnancy information such as the date of last menstrual period (LMP), the age of the foetus, the expected date of delivery, and data over the last six months for weight, blood sugar and blood pressure. 3. The ASHA worker then measures Parvati’s current weight, blood sugar and blood pressure and enters this data in the application. 4. The application informs Amruta that Parvati’s weight gain is not enough and her blood pressure is high. The ASHA worker then advises Parvati to visit the nearest Public Health Office at the earliest for consultation. Do the following: A. Add a step of your choice to the above scenario. B. Draw the information architecture of an application that will support the scenario. (Information architecture shows how the information is structured and how the screens are interconnected in the application). Indicate where each of the above steps (1, 2, 3 and 4) happen in your information architecture. C. Design FOUR screens of the application in detail. Show the layout of the screens and detail out design elements such as the widgets and the information graphics used. D. Design icons for the application itself, and for depicting age of foetus, weight, blood sugar and blood pressure in the application. Draw each icon in size 5 cm by 5 cm. Evaluation criteria: Originality, usability and appropriateness of the solution, the logic and flow in the architecture, ability to understand the needs and constraints of the users, quality of the presentation.

Time limit

30 minutes

Marks

50

Source: CEED 2018 official question paper, IIT Bombay · official page