An Interaction Modeling Language for Therapeutic Applications

Healthcare professional use therapeutic applications as an aid on treating their patients. The Literature describes the importance of including multiple stakeholders for creating effective therapeutic applications; therefore, it is important to support co-design activities including as many stakeholders as possible. This paper describes an interaction modeling language for therapeutic applications. The language's goal is enabling stakeholders to contribute towards the creation, by offering their domain knowledge, and expressing their desires and longings to collaborate on the development of more effective therapeutic applications. The language was successfully used to model applications for two different institutions, each of which treating patients with different therapeutic and interaction needs. Professionals and students of computer science, healthcare, and arts collaborated on the design of those applications, and have used the language for the modelling.