Currently, care and rehabilitation practices move, to a greater extent, out of hospitals and into private homes. This accelerating trend challenges healthcare systems and their patients. Heterogeneous settings such as private homes together with the diverse nature of the inhabitants and their condi…
Currently, care and rehabilitation practices move, to a greater extent, out of hospitals and into private homes. This accelerating trend challenges healthcare systems and their patients. Heterogeneous settings such as private homes together with the diverse nature of the inhabitants and their conditions create both technical and usability constraints and possibilities that can inform development of home-based care and rehabilitation applications. This workshop likes to investigate and discuss challenges, requirements and possibilities related to home-based healthcare applications, seen from a patient perspective. For example, how do we design for acceptance and engagement among patients and their families living with these systems on an everyday basis? How can barriers related to patient engagement, motivation and the feeling of 'being cared for' be handled by developed systems in heterogeneous environments such as private homes? Or, how can User Driven Innovation (UDI) and Participatory Design (PD) be used to create systems that are aesthetically and functionally accepted by persons subject to homebased healthcare and rehabilitation? This Workshop will be a one full-day workshop. We expect high-quality, non-previously published work to be submitted. Accepted papers should be four pages long, and formatted according to the format of the main conference, Pervasive Health 2010. The workshop will be a mix of traditional presentations and discussions. Position papers should include a statement of no longer than 200 words containing a research question related to the submitted paper. The research questions will be published on a discussion group on Facebook before the workshop to stimulate an on-line debate. The debate will inform the discussion at the workshop. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, designers and practitioners - to present, discuss and contribute to a framework related to the design of pervasive healthcare, from a patient perspective. The workshop likes to contribute to the design of pervasive healthcare applications and systems for the home. The focus will be on studies and applications that discuss a home care environment and outcome of such work, addressing individually or in combination socio-technical aspects of healthcare in the home, technological aspects of healthcare in the home, and methodological challenges of how methods such as UDI and PD can be used to develop tools and applications that embrace the challenges related to motivation and engagement. Both theoretical investigations and work based on empirical efforts are welcome. Examples of successful and less successful projects alike are invited creating a framework related to the design of successful applications for self-managed care in private homes.
