Data Analysis

All of the previous methods used to understand user needs, help during the design stage, and to test and refine the healthcare product cannot provide the level of detail required to improve healthcare products without the analysis of the collected data. Within human factors, and in particular the methods above, the data is typically both quantitative and qualitative. As mentioned in the introduction, as quantitative data is widely used within engineering it is not addressed on this website; therefore, the focus of this section is on qualitative data.

In this section qualitative data will be discussed, including what it is, why it is beneficial, and how to perform qualitative analysis.