scholarly journals Evaluation is Key: Providing Appropriate Evaluation Measures for Participatory and User-Centred Design Processes of Healthcare IT

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenz Harst ◽  
Bastian Wollschlaeger ◽  
Jule Birnstein ◽  
Tina Fuchs ◽  
Patrick Timpel
Keyword(s):  
Design Processes ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
User Centred Design ◽  
Healthcare It

Constructionist Prototype Programming in a First Semester HCI Course for Engineering Students

2014 ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Jacob Nielsen ◽  
Gunver Majgaard
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
First Semester ◽  
User Centred Design ◽  
Multiple Interfaces ◽  
Programming Tools ◽  
Learning Capabilities

How can we merge interactive design processes and the development of interactive prototypes for first-semester students without prior programming experience? The authors provide a selection of relevant contructionism-inspired programming tools and provide indications on how one of them can enrich a user-centred design project for first-semester software and IT engineering students. They do this by describing the experiences from two runs of a HCI course and the concurrent semester projects. The students developed interactive touch-based learning apps for children in the fourth to sixth grade using App Inventor. Most of the project groups managed to do three iterations of specifying requirements, doing conceptual design, physical and interactive prototyping, and user evaluation. The groups implemented quite complex programs with multiple-screen switching, multiple interfaces, media such as pictures, animations and sound, database connection, Web-server connection, and integrated sensors, such as camera, accelerometer, etc. The students did a lot more project iterations and spent more time on the creative designs in real-life situations than the authors expected. This also allowed for the students' professional reflections on their prototypes, usability, interaction, and the design processes. All in all, this gave them a more profound real-life experience in the user-centred design process. The authors compare the two runs and suggest how to introduce contructionist prototype programming in a HCI course curriculum and conclude that contructionist programming tools can be a valuable addition to the teaching of HCI, and they suggest that further research should be conducted to explore how to best integrate these tools in order to optimize the students' learning capabilities.

scholarly journals Concordance: A Critical Participatory Alternative in Healthcare IT

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Grönvall ◽  
Nervo Verdezoto ◽  
Naveen Bagalkot ◽  
Tomas Sokoler
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Healthcare Design ◽  
Healthcare It

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The healthcare sector is undergoing large changes in which technology is given a more active role in both in-clinic and out-of-clinic care. Authoritative healthcare models such as compliance and adherence which relies on asymmetric patient-doctor relationships are being challenged as society, patient roles and care contexts transforms, for example when care activities move into non-clinical contexts. Concordance is an alternative model proposed by the medical field that favours an equal and collaborative patient-doctor relationship in the negotiation of care. Similarly, HCI researchers have applied diverse models of engagement in IT design ranging from authoritative models (e.g. perceiving people as human factors to design for) to more democratic design processes (e.g. Participatory Design). IT design has also been crafted as on-going processes that are integrated parts of everyday use. Based on the best practice of participation from the medical and the HCI fields, we identify critical alternatives for healthcare design. These alternatives highlight opportunities with ongoing design processes in which the design of care regimens and care IT are perceived as one process. </span></p></div></div></div>

Causing a Stir

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo POTOCNJAK-OXMAN
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Early Stages

Stir was a crowd-voted grants platform aimed at supporting creative youth in the early stages of an entrepreneurial journey. Developed through an in-depth, collaborative design process, between 2015 and 2018 it received close to two hundred projects and distributed over fifty grants to emerging creatives and became one of the most impactful programs aimed at increasing entrepreneurial activity in Canberra, Australia. The following case study will provide an overview of the methodology and process used by the design team in conceiving and developing this platform, highlighting how the community’s interests and competencies were embedded in the project itself. The case provides insights for people leading collaborative design processes, with specific emphasis on some of the characteristics on programs targeting creative youth

Roles of externalisation activities in the design process

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Maral Babapour Chafi
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Digital Modelling

Designers engage in various activities, dealing with different materials and media to externalise and represent their form ideas. This paper presents a review of design research literature regarding externalisation activities in design process: sketching, building physical models and digital modelling. The aim has been to review research on the roles of media and representations in design processes, and highlight knowledge gaps and questions for future research.

Development and Adoption of Early AASHO Design Criteria

1998 ◽  
Vol 1612 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Hall ◽  
Daniel Turner
Keyword(s):  
Design Parameters ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Horizontal Curve ◽  
Highway Design ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Blue Book ◽  
Curve Design ◽  
Independent Design

The conception, development, and adoption of early AASHO highway design criteria are documented. Examining the early efforts states used to select a design vehicle and develop horizontal curve design criteria illustrates why AASHO’s leadership was necessary. AASHO’s slow and somewhat haphazard criteria development, and the disparity from state to state, demonstrated the need for a national consensus in highway design parameters. AASHO’s role in providing these criteria is outlined through its initial development of policy booklets, followed by its 1954 publication of the landmark Blue Book. The processes by which nine states adopted the AASHO guidance are briefly reviewed. In several cases, the AASHO policy was embraced immediately, and in others it was accepted slowly as states clung to their independent design processes and only gradually updated their design criteria. A few simple conclusions are drawn about the development and adoption process, particularly as it may relate to tomorrow’s highway design criteria.

Evaluation Measures of Web Maps and Their Application

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueying ZHANG ◽  
Qijun SHEN ◽  
Yi LONG
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Measures

Current Trends of Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectroscopy Use in Clinical Gynecology

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 2021-2025
Author(s):  
Aida Petca ◽  
Dan Cristian Radu ◽  
Razvan Cosmin Petca ◽  
Claudia Mehedintu ◽  
Ramona Ileana Barac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Mass Spectroscopy ◽  
Tandem Mass ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass ◽  
Tandem Mass Spectroscopy ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Hormonal Milieu

In the present environment of staggering technical innovations and increasing expectations of quality healthcare it is evident that we need to fine tune our diagnostic abilities in order to fulfil patients� demands for more efficient therapies and augmented quality of life. We are looking for current trends in clinical gynecology that make use of Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy, technology not yet employed in Romanian laboratories for the clinical practice but that is rapidly becoming the worldwide method of choice for accurate characterization of the hormonal milieu essential for the requirements of women healthcare.

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