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Digital Health Co-Design

Tools

Data Collection Software

Adobe Connect – A web conferencing tool for hosting interactive webinars and online training sessions.
Google Forms – A free online tool for creating and distributing surveys and collecting user responses.
Kazam Screencaster – A simple screen recording tool for capturing user activities during testing.
Mentimeter – An interactive presentation tool for real-time polls, quizzes, and audience engagement.
Microsoft Teams – A collaboration platform for video meetings, chat, and file sharing.
Miro – An online collaborative whiteboard platform for brainstorming, mapping, and co-design workshops.
Morae™ software – A usability testing software for recording, observing, and analyzing user interactions with digital systems.
Mural – A digital workspace for visual collaboration, enabling teams to co-create diagrams, frameworks, and prototypes in real time.
Zoom – A video conferencing platform for online meetings, webinars, and virtual collaboration.

Dedoose - A web-based application for analysing qualitative and mixed methods data collaboratively, with strong support for teamwork.
MAXQDA - A software for qualitative and mixed methods research that enables coding, analysis, and visualisation of text, survey, and multimedia data.
Microsoft Word - A widely used word processing tool for creating, editing, and formatting text documents, commonly used in academic and professional writing.
Microsoft Excel – A spreadsheet tool for organising, analysing, and visualising data through tables, formulas, and charts.
NVivo - A qualitative data analysis software for organising, coding, and gaining insights from qualitative datasets.

Design Prototyping Software

Adobe XD – A design and prototyping tool for building user interfaces and testing user flows.
Axure – A professional prototyping tool for creating detailed wireframes and interactive mockups.
Balsamiq – A low-fidelity wireframing tool for quickly sketching interface ideas.
Figma – A collaborative, browser-based tool for creating interactive prototypes and interface designs.
InVision – A digital product design platform for prototyping, collaboration, and feedback.
NinjaMock – A wireframing tool for designing and sharing app or website prototypes.
Proto.io – A platform to create fully interactive, high-fidelity app prototypes without coding.

Hardware

Microsoft Kinect V2 – A motion-sensing device for capturing body movements and gestures to enable interactive experiences.
WoodPad – A digital drawing pad for sketching, handwriting, and capturing design ideas directly on screen.

Android Studio – The official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android apps.
Firebase – A backend-as-a-service platform offering cloud storage, authentication, and analytics.
Github – A code hosting and collaboration platform for version control and open-source projects
Meteor.js – A full-stack JavaScript framework for rapid web and mobile app development.
Unity 3D – A real-time 3D engine for creating games, VR/AR applications, and interactive experiences.

Acceptability E-Scale – a 6-item questionnaire rated on a 5-point Likert scale, designed to measure users’ perceptions of ease of use, clarity, and overall acceptability of an intervention. (Miller et al., 2020)
Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) – A tool for evaluating the quality of mobile health apps across engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information. (Landier et al., 2023)
Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ)– A standardized 16-item survey rated on a 7-point Likert scale, covering three dimensions: System Usefulness (Q1–6), Information Quality (Q7–12), and Interface Quality (Q13–16), to assess users’ satisfaction and perceived usability after system use. (Howell et al., 2023)
System Usability Scale (SUS) – A quick, widely used 10-item scale to assess perceived usability of a product or system. (Geerts et al., 2023)
Usability, Satisfaction and Acceptability Questionnaire (USAQ) – A short 5-point scale adapted from SUS, used to gauge users’ overall impressions of a system’s usability, satisfaction, and acceptability. (Dimeff et al., 2020)
User Experience Questionnaire Short Version - A 7point Likert scale for its eight items (Blanes-Selva et al., 2023)

Large language model based GenAI (eg. ChatGPT): A conversational language model that supports co-design by expanding and refining content (Bricker et al., 2024), synthesising user data into personas, complementing the expertise of human professionals (Geanta et al., 2025), onboarding participants with personalised guidance (King et al., 2025), generating summaries and design activities, and prompting deeper reflection through thought-provoking questions (Liu et al., 2025).
DeepMotion: A motion-capture driven animation tool that transforms user-recorded movements or sign language videos into lifelike 3D avatar animations for exploring communication, interaction, and embodiment in co-design (Chen et al., 2025).
MetaHuman: A hyper-realistic digital human creator used to generate detailed facial expressions and realistic avatars, supporting immersive prototyping and enhancing emotional nuance in co-design activities (Chen et al., 2025).
Pictory: A GenAI-powered video creation tool that transforms written summaries into engaging video content, supporting rapid prototyping and accessible communication in co-design (Liu et al., 2025).