Affordance theory as a conceptual foundation to design Precision Healthcare ecosystems

Document Type

Book Chapter

Source of Publication

Research Handbook on Health Information Systems Theories and Methods

Publication Date

2-10-2025

Abstract

The significance of user-centricity in healthcare demands more real-time, data-centric, and personalised solutions. Precision Healthcare (PHC) is an emerging digital healthcare stream that could support data-centricity attributes in healthcare and deliver personalised service to patients. For reasons to be discussed, PHC is also experiencing challenges in patient opt-in. To address this problematic issue, PHC ecosystems need to be designed focusing on socially desirable, technologically feasible, and economically viable affordances. This chapter outlines such a user-centred design of PHC systems. In design interviews and validation workshops, we iteratively refined the artefacts and adopted abductive reasoning to derive design principles and rules for PHC ecosystems using the lens of affordance theory. We propose a comprehensive set of design principles for PHC systems which posits that by adapting these design rules to accentuate the enabling affordances of PHC while mitigating the inhibiting affordances, we obtain the commitment of stakeholders to implementation success.

ISBN

[9781802201291, 9781802201307]

First Page

31

Last Page

44

Disciplines

Business

Keywords

Action design research, Design principles, Design science research, Emerging technologies, Patient engagement, User-centred design

Scopus ID

05003529856

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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