Authors:
Ann Blandford
Conducting HCI research in healthcare is exciting, worthwhile, and essential: Medicine and healthcare are becoming increasingly reliant on interactive health technologies and data analytics. HCI researchers and practitioners have a key role in ensuring that healthcare systems are fit for purpose (safe, effective, engaging, etc.) and in discovering new interactions that can enhance health and well-being. However, working with health professionals and biomedical researchers can pose challenges—some obvious, some subtle. Insights Every discipline evolves from earlier work and community consensus on its appropriate goals, values, and methods. Jonathan Grudin [1] traces the roots of HCI to sources including…
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