Publikation
An HCI Perspective on Knee and Hip Condition Treatment: Interview Study with German Physiotherapists
Pascal Lessel; André Zenner; Felix Kosmalla
In: SportsHCI '25: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports. Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports (SportsHCI-2025), November 17-19, Enschede, Netherlands, Pages 1-9, ISBN 979-8-4007-1428-3, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, 11/2025.
Zusammenfassung
We conducted six interviews with German physiotherapists in the context of current practices around knee and hip problems. Interview questions focused on medical conditions suitable for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies, homework relevancy, individualization practices, and digital components used (or not used) in physiotherapy today. From these interviews, nine aspects relevant for HCI were synthesized, for example, that there is too little time in patients’ appointments paid for by the health insurance companies, rendering homework exercises crucial for therapy success while patients’ motivation is often lacking. Also, individualization matters as treatment strategies vary between physiotherapists and will be instantiated for the individual patient. The interview results confirm and extend related work in this context. For each result, we derived HCI-related implications that should be considered when support systems are conceptualized, developed, and evaluated.