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Doodle Health: A Crowdsourcing Game For The Co-Design And Testing Of Pictographs To Reduce Disparities In Healthcare Communication, Carrie Christensen, Doug Redd, Erica Lake, Jean P. Shipman, Heather Aiono, Roger Altizer Jr., Bruce Bray, Qing Zeng

Clinical Research and Leadership Faculty Publications

Supplementing patient education content with pictographs can improve the comprehension and recall of information, especially patients with low health literacy. Pictograph design and testing, however, are costly and time consuming.

We created a Web-based game, Doodle Health, for crowdsourcing the drawing and validation of pictographs. The objective of this pilot study was to test the usability of the game and its appeal to healthcare consumers. The chief purpose of the game is to involve a diverse population in the co-design and evaluation of pictographs.

We conducted a community-based focus group to inform the game design. Game designers, health sciences librarians, …