Using Personas in the Development of Smoking Cessation Mobile Application

Abstract

The use of mobile applications for healthcare is a new and vigorous area that could enhance the welfare of individuals across the globe. Health applications in technological devices (smartphones, PDAs) empower
upsurge-frog-proportion convenience to enhance entry to health improvement and mediations. These health applications prove beneficial in a number of aspects, such as supplying therapeutic content through a digital device, mobile welfare applications, and the applications constructed to access digital health and private health evidence. Tobacco smoking can be injurious to health, creating a number of afflictions and damaging the health condition of smokers. Smoking cessation enhances life expectancy since it shortens the danger of expiring from certain smoking-associated afflictions for instance, lung cancer. In this study, our main aim is to propose a smoking cessation application using personas. Based on the interviews with the smokers, we developed two fictive characters, so called personas.  From the resulting personas we derived a number of possible designs, where the smoking cessation application would assist the smokers
in an efficient manner