Toward Smart City in Indonesia: Connecting Dentist Co-Assistant and Citizen

摘要

In the Indonesian dentistry education system, students are required to enrol a further professional program after receiving their bachelor degree. Dentist co-assistant is a terminology to identify those whose level education is a professional program. This two-year program emphasises more in the practical skill, and in consequence, dealing with actual problems are a necessity. To do so, a dentist co-assistant is requested to find their own patients to fulfil such requirements. However, difficulties arise to connect the one with patient because of dilemmas in patient screening, issue of trust, difficulties in scheduling, and so forth. Considering dentistry is a part of city's domain, the primary objective of this research is to propose an intermediary system to connect dentist coassistant and patient in Indonesia under the smart city concept. Despite some limitations, such a well-design prototype has successfully built up. With the total usefulness score and agreement rate of 4.01 and 81.8%, respectively, the evaluation outcome indicated a positive user acceptance.