A Data Visualization Tool for Patients and Healthcare Providers to Communicate during Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation

Shri Harini Ramesh, Alicia Ouskine, Elahe Khorasani, Mona Ebrahimipour, Hillel Finestone, Adrian D. C. Chan, Fateme Rajabiyazdi

Letter Of Changes:

Thank you so much for your helpful feedback! We have made the following revisions based on the suggestions from the reviewers:

Reviewer: Clarify why you chose to start with healthcare providers rather than patients.

We have justified our decision on why we chose to start with healthcare providers in Section 3.1 under Study Design.

Reviewer: Clarify Claims and Focus on Communication; the evaluations and discussions focus a lot on the design but do not put "communications" in an important place.

Throughout the paper, we have clarified that our tool can be used by both healthcare providers and patients simultaneously during communication. We have also changed the title to reflect this aspect. Additionally, we would like to acknowledge that we did not evaluate the tool in an inpatient rehabilitation communication setting, and we have mentioned this as a limitation in Section 7.

Reviewer: Provide a rationale for the Visualization Design, and the choice of color does not seem to be color-blind friendly.

We explained our design rationale for line charts, action dots, flowers and clouds in the weekly progress view in Section 3.4 for Study 1 and in Section 4.3 for Study 2. Additionally, under Section 7 (Limitation), we added an explanation about our color-coded action dots, which are currently not color-blind friendly, and we will implement improvements in our future work.

Reviewer: Describe how you think design requirements seem generalizable and not only specific to stroke rehabilitation.

We discussed how the design requirements are generalizable and how they can be applied beyond stroke rehabilitation in Section 3.3. We also supported this statement with a few literature references.

Reviewer: Provide clearer recommendations and takeaway messages.

We offered design considerations for future researchers in the Introduction (Section 1) and Discussion (Section 7).

Reviewer: We encourage the authors to strike a better balance between text and sizing of figures.

We increased the sizes of Figures 1, 2, and 3 for better visibility.

Reviewer: Authors can consider a scenario type of description to walk through the tool’s features.

We have included an example workflow to walk through the tool’s features as a new section called Section 6.

Thank you again for your valuable input.

Best Regards,

Authors of “A Data Visualization Tool for Patients and Healthcare Providers to Communicate during Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation.”

Keywords: Data visualization, Patient-Healthcare provider communication, Inpatient stroke rehabilitation, Human-centred design

Abstract: Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. The efficacy of stroke recovery is determined by various factors, including patient adherence to their rehabilitation program. Effective communication between healthcare providers and patients is crucial for promoting patients' adherence to rehabilitation programs. Aiming to support patient-healthcare provider communication during inpatient stroke rehabilitation, we (1) conducted semi-structured interviews with healthcare providers with expertise in inpatient stroke recovery to extract design requirements for visualizing stroke recovery progress. Using these design requirements, we (2) designed a data visualization tool representing stroke recovery. We (3) sought feedback on the visualization designs from healthcare providers and patients and integrated their feedback into the designs. Informed by the results of our studies, we provided several considerations for designing future visualization tools for patients and providers to communicate during inpatient stroke rehabilitation.

Submission Number: 25