HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care

The work group HumanComputer Interaction & Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange, research and development. While humancomputer 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 HumanComputer 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.

Autorentext
Ing. Mag. rer. nat. Mag. phil. Dr. phil. Andreas Holzinger, geb. 1963 in Graz, Radio- und Fernsehtechniker, Industrietätigkeit in der Informationstechnik, Werkmeister für Industrielle Elektronik und Lehrlingsausbilderprüfung. College of Further Education Bournemouth (England) mit Schwerpunkt Computertechnik. Studien der Nachrichtentechnik, Physik und Psychologie sowie Medienpädagogik und Soziologie an der TU und Uni Graz. Promotion mit 'summa cum laude' auf dem Gebiet der Kognitionswissenschaft. Hochschullehrer am Institut für Informationsverarbeitung und computergestützte neue Medien der TU-Graz. Vorstandsassistent am Institut für medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Dokumentation. Konsulent des österreichischen Wissenschaftsministeriums. Österreichischer Experte in der Europäischen Union im Bereich Multimedia (eEurope). Dr. Holzinger forscht, arbeitet und lehrt in den Gebieten: Informationssysteme, Multimedia, Human-Computer-Interaction, Internet/Intranet, Intelligente Tutorielle Systeme.

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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.

Zusammenfassung
The work group HumanComputer Interaction & Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange, research and development. While humancomputer 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 HumanComputer 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.

Inhalt
Formal Methods in Usability Engineering.- User-Centered Methods Are Insufficient for Safety Critical Systems.- Improving Interactive Systems Usability Using Formal Description Techniques: Application to HealthCare.- Using Formal Specification Techniques for Advanced Counseling Systems in Health Care.- System Analysis and Methodologies for Design and Development.- Nurses' Working Practices: What Can We Learn for Designing Computerised Patient Record Systems?.- Organizational, Contextual and User-Centered Design in e-Health: Application in the Area of Telecardiology.- The Effect of New Standards on the Global Movement Toward Usable Medical Devices.- Usability of Radio-Frequency Devices in Surgery.- BadIdeas for Usability and Design of Medicine and Healthcare Sensors.- Physicians' and Nurses' Documenting Practices and Implications for Electronic Patient Record Design.- Ambient Assisted Living and Life Long Learning.- Design and Development of a Mobile Medical Application for the Management of Chronic Diseases: Methods of Improved Data Input for Older People.- Technology in Old Age from a Psychological Point of View.- Movement Coordination in Applied Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction.- An Orientation Service for Dependent People Based on an Open Service Architecture.- Competence Assessment for Spinal Anaesthesia.- Visualization and Simulation in Medicine and Health Care.- Usability and Transferability of a Visualization Methodology for Medi…