A FRAMEWORK FOR THE DESIGN OF SPEECH-ENABLED SELF-CARE E- HEALTH SYSTEMS
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The Internet provides a wide range of health
information and services which consumers access for
self-care and to participate in a more informed way in
their healthcare when they
see their physician. This
information and services are however, delivered in
text form and therefore,
does not cater for the needs
of the non-computer literate, the visually impaired
and the blind. This paper
presents a framework for
the design of speech-enab
led self-care e-Health
systems. Reasoning-induced
disease diagnosis which
existing speech-based disease screening systems lack
has been incorporated into the framework to enable
systems based on the framework diagnose more than
one type of disease. Base
d on the framework, speech-
based self-care e-Health system (SSeS) prototype
application was developed. The originality of this
framework is that it is speech-based. This takes care
of the health needs of th
e category of people earlier
identified and the underserved people, majority of
those who are domiciled in Africa.
Keywords
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science