TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a pattern language approach to sharing experiences in healthcare technology evaluations
AU - Doyle, Julie
AU - Quigley, Aaron
AU - Nixon, Paddy
AU - Caulfield, Brian
PY - 2010/12/15
Y1 - 2010/12/15
N2 - Healthcare technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive, moving from controlled clinical and laboratory settings, to real environments such as homes, acute care environments and residential care centres. As a consequence, new challenges arise in evaluating the impact of healthcare technologies and interactions in their context of use. In this paper we propose the use of a pattern language as a means of capturing experiences from researchers in the field of evaluating healthcare technologies. The potential benefits of such an approach include the availability of a centralised repository, or collaborative tool of past experiences which can contribute to the reuse of knowledge, which can encourage and improve communication between interdisciplinary members of the healthcare community and which is presented in a 'lay' language, understandable by all. We propose to structure the content of our pattern language along three stages of healthcare, namely home care, residential care and acute care and to organise evaluations across each of these stages in terms of physical, social, intellectual and purpose fitness.
AB - Healthcare technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive, moving from controlled clinical and laboratory settings, to real environments such as homes, acute care environments and residential care centres. As a consequence, new challenges arise in evaluating the impact of healthcare technologies and interactions in their context of use. In this paper we propose the use of a pattern language as a means of capturing experiences from researchers in the field of evaluating healthcare technologies. The potential benefits of such an approach include the availability of a centralised repository, or collaborative tool of past experiences which can contribute to the reuse of knowledge, which can encourage and improve communication between interdisciplinary members of the healthcare community and which is presented in a 'lay' language, understandable by all. We propose to structure the content of our pattern language along three stages of healthcare, namely home care, residential care and acute care and to organise evaluations across each of these stages in terms of physical, social, intellectual and purpose fitness.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78649927370
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649927370
SN - 3642166067
SN - 9783642166068
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 124
EP - 137
BT - HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure - 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering, USAB 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering, USAB 2010
Y2 - 4 November 2010 through 5 November 2010
ER -