HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care

1. Front Matter

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2. Formal Methods in Usability Engineering

   1. User-Centered Methods Are Insufficient for Safety Critical Systems

      • Harold Thimbleby

      Pages 1-20

   2. Improving Interactive Systems Usability Using Formal Description Techniques: Application to HealthCare

      • Philippe Palanque, Sandra Basnyat, David Navarre

      Pages 21-40

   3. Using Formal Specification Techniques for Advanced Counseling Systems in Health Care

      • Dominikus Herzberg, Nicola Marsden, Corinna Leonhardt, Peter Kübler, Hartmut Jung, Sabine Thomanek et al.

      Pages 41-54

3. System Analysis and Methodologies for Design and Development

   1. Nurses’ Working Practices: What Can We Learn for Designing Computerised Patient Record Systems?

      • Elke Reuss, Rochus Keller, Rahel Naef, Stefan Hunziker, Lukas Furler

      Pages 55-68

   2. Organizational, Contextual and User-Centered Design in e-Health: Application in the Area of Telecardiology

      • Eva Patrícia Gil-Rodríguez, Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Álvaro Alesanco Iglesias, José García Moros, Francesc Saigí Rubió

      Pages 69-82

   3. The Effect of New Standards on the Global Movement Toward Usable Medical Devices

      • Torsten Gruchmann, Anfried Borgert

      Pages 83-96

   4. Usability of Radio-Frequency Devices in Surgery

      • Dirk Büchel, Thomas Baumann, Ulrich Matern

      Pages 97-104

   5. BadIdeas for Usability and Design of Medicine and Healthcare Sensors

      • Paula Alexandra Silva, Kristof Van Laerhoven

      Pages 105-112

   6. Physicians’ and Nurses’ Documenting Practices and Implications for Electronic Patient Record Design

      • Elke Reuss, Rahel Naef, Rochus Keller, Moira Norrie

      Pages 113-118

4. Ambient Assisted Living and Life Long Learning

   1. Design and Development of a Mobile Medical Application for the Management of Chronic Diseases: Methods of Improved Data Input for Older People

      • Alexander Nischelwitzer, Klaus Pintoffl, Christina Loss, Andreas Holzinger

      Pages 119-132

   2. Technology in Old Age from a Psychological Point of View

      • Claudia Oppenauer, Barbara Preschl, Karin Kalteis, Ilse Kryspin-Exner

      Pages 133-142

   3. Movement Coordination in Applied Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction

      • Anna Schubö, Cordula Vesper, Mathey Wiesbeck, Sonja Stork

      Pages 143-154

   4. An Orientation Service for Dependent People Based on an Open Service Architecture

      • A. Fernández-Montes, J. A. Álvarez, J. A. Ortega, Natividad Martínez Madrid, Ralf Seepold

      Pages 155-164

   5. Competence Assessment for Spinal Anaesthesia

      • Dietrich Albert, Cord Hockemeyer, Zsuzsanna Kulcsar, George Shorten

      Pages 165-170

5. Visualization and Simulation in Medicine and Health Care

   1. Usability and Transferability of a Visualization Methodology for Medical Data

      • Margit Pohl, Markus Rester, Sylvia Wiltner

      Pages 171-184

   2. Refining the Usability Engineering Toolbox: Lessons Learned from a User Study on a Visualization Tool

      • Homa Javahery, Ahmed Seffah

      Pages 185-198

   3. Interactive Analysis and Visualization of Macromolecular Interfaces between Proteins

      • Marco Wiltgen, Andreas Holzinger, Gernot P. Tilz

      Pages 199-212

   4. Modeling Elastic Vessels with the LBGK Method in Three Dimensions

      • Daniel Leitner, Siegfried Wassertheurer, Michael Hessinger, Andreas Holzinger, Felix Breitenecker

      Pages 213-226

6. Usability of Mobile Computing and Augmented Reality

   1. Usability of Mobile Computing Technologies to Assist Cancer Patients

      • Rezwan Islam, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Nilothpal Talukder, Ian Obermiller

      Pages 227-240

The work group Human–Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange, research and development. While human–computer interaction brings together psychologists and computer scientists, usability engineering is a discipline within software engineering. It is essential that psychology research must be incorporated into software engineering at a systemic level. The aspect of integration of human factors into informatics is especially important, since it is here that innovations take place, systems are built and applications are implemented. Our 2007 topic was “Human–Computer Interaction for Medicine and Health Care” (HCI4MED), culminating in the third annual Usability Symposium USAB 2007 on November 22, 2007 in Graz, Austria (http://www.meduni-graz.at/imi/usab-symposium). Medical information systems are already extremely sophisticated and technological performance increases exponentially. However, human cognitive evolution does not advance at the same speed. Consequently, the focus on interaction and communication between humans and computers is of increasing importance in medicine and health care. The daily actions of medical professionals must be the central concern, surrounding and supporting them with new and emerging technologies. Information systems are a central component of modern knowledge-based medicine and health services, therefore knowledge management needs to continually be adapted to the needs and demands of medical professionals within this environment of steadily increasing high-tech medicine. information processing, in particular its potential effectiveness in modern health services and the optimization of processes and operational sequences, is ofincreasing interest.

• Augmented Reality
• Usability
• expert system
• formal method
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• learning
• ontology
• semantics
• simulation
• system analysis
• visualization

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