Human-centered computing in health information systems

Human-centered Computing in Health Information Systems – Issue 2: Evaluation

This is the second of the two special issues on human-centered computing in health information systems (see [1] for Issue 1 Editorial). Human-centered computing is based on four types of analyses for users, functions, representations, and tasks [1-2]. It is also a process that includes work domain analysis, design, and evaluation as three major steps. The first special issue focused on the doma...

Human-centered computing in health information systems Part 1: Analysis and design

A large number of health information system projects fail. Most of these failures are not due to flawed technology , but rather due to the lack of systematic considerations of human and other non-technology issues in the design and implementation processes [1–8]. In other words, designing and implementing a health information system is not so much an IT project as a human project about human-ce...

Guardian Angel: Patient-Centered Health Information Systems

Designing Human-Centered Distributed Information Systems

and users, not with the structures that are often more fundamental for designing truly human-centered systems. The emerging paradigm of human-centered computing (HCC)—which has taken many forms— offers a new look at system design. HCC requires more than merely designing an artificial agent to supplement a human agent. The dynamic interactions in a distributed system composed of human and artifi...

Principles of Human-centered Information Systems

The paper discusses two main principles of human-centered information systems design − namely, the integration of space and time at a fundamental operating system level. These principles will allow all applications to use the notions of time and space in their designs and will give humans a working environment that is more familiar. A research project based on these principles is described and ...