Designing with Care: The Future of Pervasive Healthcare

Author

Mulder, Ingrid ; Schikhof, Yvonne ; Vastenburg, Martijn ; Card, Alan ; Dunn, Tory ; Komninos, Andreas ; McGee-Lennon, Marilyn ; Santcroos, Mark ; Tiotto, Gabriele ; van Gils, Mieke ; van ´t Klooster, Jan-Willem ; Veys, Annelies ; Eslami, Mohammed Zarifi

Author_Institution

Delft University of Technology

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

2009

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

Humane care—which is an important design paradigm relevant for pervasive healthcare—means designing systems with care, keeping in mind both users and other stakeholders. Understanding human values is a key factor in creating any successful healthcare application and is essential to avoid dehumanizing and stigmatizing users. By considering human values, designers and developers can create pervasive healthcare applications that better fit users´ needs and desires. The Designing with Care 09 workshop aimed to bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners to share their experiences with incorporating values into the design of pervasive healthcare systems and to help understand the sensitive issues involved in designing for healthcare. Based on the findings from the workshop, the present state of the art is discussed, and a research agenda is presented.

Keywords

Humans; Medical services; design methods; human values; pervasive health applications; user involvement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pervasive Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1268

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPRV.2009.71

Filename

5280690