Health Care Technical Group

This is the call for students to submit their intent to participate in the Student mHealth App Competition associated with the 2023 Health Care Symposium! This competition challenges students to come up with ideas for apps that address health and wellbeing concerns and gives them the opportunity to design and development the product. The documentation that you make for this competition is intended to be used as a portfolio piece for your resume.  For additional information see the note below listing the estimated timeline and guidelines for the competition.  After we collect all intents to participate, we will send additional information on scoring rubrics and example winners from previous years to all participating teams and advisers.

The link to submit an intent to participate is https://forms.gle/TW5sxhvEYVimiUH38

We look forward to receiving your intent to participate!

Warm regards,

Katie Tippey

Senior Usability Designer

Philips North America

TENTATIVE TIMELINE

September 2022: Students submit form with intent to participant
December 2022: Round 1 submissions due
January 2023: Semifinalists from Round 1 announced and assigned a coach
February 2023: Round 2 submissions due
March 2023: Finalists announced and present at the Health Care Symposium


MHEALTH APP COMPETITION RULES

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society once again invites students to participate in the "Mobile Health Applications for End Users" Design Competition in conjunction with the 2023 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care.

Objectives
Showcase the application of human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) methods and design principles for the design of a mobile health application for end users.

Who may submit
All entries should come from students enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree-granting program. All team members must be students at the time of the 2023 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care. Entries may come from teams of no more than four students.

Scope
Applications must be newly devised and designed for this competition. Work that has been presented or submitted to other venues will not be considered. Applications should be designed for use by healthcare end users. This can include consumers, their support network, and healthcare professionals; however, the app must be a stand-alone product. Applications should be mobile health software that is accessible via a mobile device and may be integrated with hardware (e.g., wearable activity tracker, Bluetooth blood pressure cuff) or online services (e.g., Google Maps, Facebook).

Intent to Participate – Notice of intent to participant
All prospective contestants must submit a notice of intent to participate prior to starting any work on the competition. The form for intent to participate is located here. Submission of the notice to participate must have been completed by September 16, 2022.

Round 1 – Submission of Initial Entries
Contestants verified for eligibility and approved to participate should submit their initial entries on December 14, 2022. The initial submission must include the following:

• Low fidelity wireframe of the app - the wireframe may be a paper based or digital representation of the app. Teams can use programs such as Axure, Google Sketch, Miro, InVision, or Figma file that should be exported into a PDF or other downloaded format for the submission. Wireframes at this stage of the competition are not required to be interactive.
• Report about the business case for developing the app - the report should be a minimum of 2 pages and include information justifying the need for the product. The report must state the problem the app is addressing and list the potential user groups.

These submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges, and up to the top 8 submissions will continue on to Round 2 of the competition and be provided with a product researcher coach.

Round 2 – Semifinalist Coaching and Submissions
Each semifinalist team will be assigned a product researcher coach that will meet with the team at least twice during the extended product development period. Semifinalist submissions should include the following:

• Interactive prototype of the app - this digital representation must include the ability to select different icons that will take the user to the intended section of the app. Teams may use the same software they used to create their prototype for the initial submission to develop their interactive prototype.
• Product specifications document - this document should list the connections between all of the components of the app in sufficient detail that these specifications could be given along with the prototype and production assets to a computer programmer who could then program the app.
• Updated report - teams should add a semifinalist activities section to their report to discuss the work that they did after their initial submission. This section can be up to 5 pages and should include how you approached the design of the interactive prototype and product specifications.

These submissions will again be reviewed by a panel of judges and the top 3 submissions will be selected as finalists for the competition and invited to present during a special session at the HFES Health Care Symposium. Teams will be notified if they are finalists by March 1, 2023. Finalists teams will be provided with a detailed judging rubric for their presentations at this time. These finalists will each be awarded a certificate and $200 prize. One or more team members may present.

Round 3 – Finalist Presentations during the HFES Health Care Symposium
A new panel of judges will be formed to review the presentation. Finalists are strongly recommended to address any feedback received from earlier reviews.