Publications by authors named "Ignasi Gomez-Sebastia"

Introduction: Mobile applications (apps) are increasingly used during pregnancy, postpartum and lactation. To ensure the utility and usability of breastfeeding support apps, they need to be evaluated using a reliable scale specific to mHealth apps and breastfeeding users.

Objective: To translate the original the mHealth App Usability Questionnaire (MAUQ) questionnaire into Spanish and to adapt it to breastfeeding support apps environment.

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Breastfeeding is an unquestionable right of mothers and their children; however, it is not a one-woman job. For breastfeeding to succeed, women must have access to appropriate support and guidance. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restriction measures and lockdown to reduce community spread of the disease have negatively impacted breastfeeding support from health services and thus, in mothers' breastfeeding experiences.

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Assistive Technologies (AT) are an application area where several Artificial Intelligence techniques and tools have been successfully applied to support elderly or impeded people on their daily activities. However, approaches to AT tend to center in the user-tool interaction, neglecting the user's connection with its social environment (such as caretakers, relatives and health professionals) and the possibility to monitor undesired behaviour providing both adaptation to a dynamic environment and early response to potentially dangerous situations. In previous work we have presented COAALAS, an intelligent social and norm-aware device for elderly people that is able to autonomously organize, reorganize and interact with the different actors involved in elderly-care, either human actors or other devices.

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