Behavior Modification Applied to Requirements Engineering for Medical Applications

This paper shows a development practice for the requirements process of a medical application. In this process, a psychology specialist was included in order to improve the application from the specification of requirements, considering subjects such as: support networks, behavior modification, increased intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the creation of tools to facilitate patientphysician communication. This resulted in 11 new requirements. When a psychology specialist is involved in the requirements process, a new perspective on the patient is obtained, one that is broader than the requirements engineer usually has. It considers human needs that can serve to stimulate the user to avoid certain negative behaviors or to encourage positive behaviors. One of the main objectives of an application that helps a patient in their medical treatment is that the user does not abandon it, and the psychological perspective created requirements may help in this.