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Paper on critical incidents and eHealth design accepted to Interact 2017!

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Months ago I wrote a blog post about a workshop at NordiCHI 2016, to which I submitted my first ever research contribution from the patient’s perspective. You can find the workshop position paper here. After that workshop the participants decided that we should continue our discussions and also do research together when possible. The first result of our collaboration, a short paper submitted to Interact 2017, has now been accepted for publication and presentation at the conference (was conditionally accepted about a month ago)!

Christiane Grünloh is the lead author of this paper, and the others are (in order) Jean Hallewell, Bridget Kane, Eunji Lee, Thomas Lind, Jonas Moll, Hanife Rexhepi and Isabella Scandurra. The title of the Interact paper is: “Using Critical Incidents in Workshops to Inform eHealth Design”.

The paper is focused on the workshop and especially on how this kind of workshop, gathering both researchers, practitioners and patients (me, in this case) who all contribute with a critical incident related to eHealth, can be used to generate ideas that can inform future eHealth design. More details about the format can be found in the paper when it’s published and in the blog post which I linked to above. Christiane will present the paper at the conference and it seems like the presentation (as well as most other presentations) will be broadcasted!

Here is the abstract, summarizing the main points:

Demands for technological solutions to address the variety of problems in healthcare have increased. The design of eHealth is challenging due to e.g. the complexity of the domain and the multitude of stakeholders involved. We describe a workshop method based on Critical Incidents that can be used to reflect on, and critically analyze, different experiences and practices in healthcare. We propose the workshop format, which was used during a conference and found very helpful by the participants to identify possible implications for eHealth design, that can be applied in future projects. This new format shows promise to evaluate eHealth designs, to learn from patients’ real stories and case studies through retrospective meta-analyses, and to inform design through joint reflection of understandings about users’ needs and issues for designers.

 

 

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Another visit from Germany and a lot of good progress!

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Christiane Grünloh, who came from Germany to visit as a few weeks ago (see this blog post), came back to us this week. The main reason for her visit was once again to work with us in the large eHealth studies which I’m currently leading. As always, it was nice to have her with us and we got a lot of things done during these few days. First of all, we got several interviews done for this study. I will not discuss results here, since it is too early in the process and nothing has been analyzed, but after these days I’m sure that the study will give a lot of new insight. I also learned that Christiane is a very talented interviewer! It was obvious that she is a good active listener and that she can create a nice atmosphere during the interviews.

While Christiane was here, we also discussed about possibilities for writing CHI-papers and I think we came up with some really good ideas. I will try two write one related to mediated communication and haptic feedback and one, together with other researchers in DOME, related to eHealth. We also discussed ideas for submissions to other conferences. I will of course write more about this in future blog posts.

We also had progress when it came to accepted papers. A while ago I wrote a blog post about some papers being submitted to Interact. Yesterday we learned that one of them, a method paper about a workshop the DOME consortium hosted last autumn, had been conditionally accepted! I will write more about it when we have a final answer after resubmit. This also means that Christiane will get funding for visiting the conference in Mumbai, which in turn means that we (Åsa Cajander, Christiane and I) can submit a prepared workshop paper to the same conference (I will write another post about that if the WS contribution gets accepted)! The other paper we sent to Interact, about nurses’ views on patient accessible electronic health records, did not get accepted this time. But, we do have a plan for the future of that paper.

So, we had a lot of good progress this week and I hope we will have more of these weeks ahead of us!

 

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Recently submitted a paper to Interact 2017!

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Earlier this evening I submitted a short paper to the Interact 2017 conference, after a seemingly endless iteration of “let’s check all the details one last time”! The paper, on which I’m the second author, relates to the eHealth area and is based on a master’s thesis. If accepted, it will be my biggest paper contribution I have made this far during my time as a postdoc at Uppsala University. I will, of course, write more about the submission and introduce the other authors when a decision has been made after the blind review.

It is actually the case that I’m also one of the authors behind another Interact 2017 submission which was made earlier today. That one is more of a method paper related to eHealth and has a whole bunch of authors. I will get back to this paper as well when a decision has been made.

We will be notified in the beginning of June if the submissions have been accepted or not. Let’s hope for the best in both cases!  🙂