HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care: Third Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2007 Graz, Austria, November, 22, 2007. Proceedings

Harold Thimbleby (auth.), Andreas Holzinger (eds.)3540768041, 9783540768043

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 of increasing interest.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
User-Centered Methods Are Insufficient for Safety Critical Systems….Pages 1-20
Improving Interactive Systems Usability Using Formal Description Techniques: Application to HealthCare….Pages 21-40
Using Formal Specification Techniques for Advanced Counseling Systems in Health Care….Pages 41-54
Nurses’ Working Practices: What Can We Learn for Designing Computerised Patient Record Systems?….Pages 55-68
Organizational, Contextual and User-Centered Design in e-Health: Application in the Area of Telecardiology….Pages 69-82
The Effect of New Standards on the Global Movement Toward Usable Medical Devices….Pages 83-96
Usability of Radio-Frequency Devices in Surgery….Pages 97-104
BadIdeas for Usability and Design of Medicine and Healthcare Sensors….Pages 105-112
Physicians’ and Nurses’ Documenting Practices and Implications for Electronic Patient Record Design….Pages 113-118
Design and Development of a Mobile Medical Application for the Management of Chronic Diseases: Methods of Improved Data Input for Older People….Pages 119-132
Technology in Old Age from a Psychological Point of View….Pages 133-142
Movement Coordination in Applied Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction….Pages 143-154
An Orientation Service for Dependent People Based on an Open Service Architecture….Pages 155-164
Competence Assessment for Spinal Anaesthesia….Pages 165-170
Usability and Transferability of a Visualization Methodology for Medical Data….Pages 171-184
Refining the Usability Engineering Toolbox: Lessons Learned from a User Study on a Visualization Tool….Pages 185-198
Interactive Analysis and Visualization of Macromolecular Interfaces between Proteins….Pages 199-212
Modeling Elastic Vessels with the LBGK Method in Three Dimensions….Pages 213-226
Usability of Mobile Computing Technologies to Assist Cancer Patients….Pages 227-240
Usability of Mobile Computing in Emergency Response Systems – Lessons Learned and Future Directions….Pages 241-254
Some Usability Issues of Augmented and Mixed Reality for e-Health Applications in the Medical Domain….Pages 255-266
Designing Pervasive Brain-Computer Interfaces….Pages 267-272
The Impact of Structuring the Interface as a Decision Tree in a Treatment Decision Support Tool….Pages 273-288
Dynamic Simulation of Medical Diagnosis: Learning in the Medical Decision Making and Learning Environment MEDIC….Pages 289-302
SmartTransplantation – Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation as a Model for a Medical Expert System….Pages 303-314
Framing, Patient Characteristics, and Treatment Selection in Medical Decision-Making….Pages 315-322
The How and Why of Incident Investigation: Implications for Health Information Technology….Pages 323-334
Combining Virtual Reality and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI): Problems and Solutions….Pages 335-348
Cognitive Task Analysis for Prospective Usability Evaluation in Computer-Assisted Surgery….Pages 349-356
Serious Games Can Support Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents….Pages 357-364
Development and Application of Facial Expression Training System….Pages 365-372
Usability of an Evidence-Based Practice Website on a Pediatric Neuroscience Unit….Pages 373-374
Cognitive Load Research and Semantic Apprehension of Graphical Linguistics….Pages 375-388
An Ontology Approach for Classification of Abnormal White Matter in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis….Pages 389-402
The Evaluation of Semantic Tools to Support Physicians in the Extraction of Diagnosis Codes….Pages 403-408
Ontology Usability Via a Visualization Tool for the Semantic Indexing of Medical Reports (DICOM SR)….Pages 409-414
Fostering Creativity Thinking in Agile Software Development….Pages 415-426
An Analytical Approach for Predicting and Identifying Use Error and Usability Problem….Pages 427-440
User’s Expertise Differences When Interacting with Simple Medical User Interfaces….Pages 441-446
Usability-Testing Healthcare Software with Nursing Informatics Students in Distance Education: A Case Study….Pages 447-452
Tutorial: Introduction to Visual Analytics….Pages 453-456
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