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.
DOI Link
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
Recommended Citation
Zahid, Arnob; Wingreen, Stephen; and Sharma, Ravishankar, "Affordance theory as a conceptual foundation to design Precision Healthcare ecosystems" (2025). All Works. 7284.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/7284
Indexed in Scopus
yes
Open Access
no