MediCHI 2013 - International Workshop on Safer Interaction in Medical Device

Medical devices embedded with computer systems have becoming widely adopted in many healthcare situations with the intention to deliver accurate and effective medication. However, designing and evaluating high-risk interactive medical devices from a human error management perspective has always being challenging to both academia and industry.
This one-day workshop will bring together international researchers, manufacturers and designers working in relevant fields to discuss and demonstrate the practical approaches that can be adopted to improve the design of medical devices for safer interaction in the future.
We seek position papers and demonstration proposals associated with the following two themes:
Design of Personal/Home Interactive Medical Devices: where the complexity of social environment, device operator’s physical capabilities and psychological activities have great effect on user’s decision making as well as error rate;
Design to Manage Human Error in Clinical Settings: which includes designing interactive medical devices with human error management features, new design approaches or tools to ensure safer interaction, and improving incident reporting and learning system to better capture user error.
Submission
Authors are asked to submit a 2-4 pages position papers or demonstration proposals in the CHI extended abstracts format to Yunqiu.li-AT-swansea.ac.uk by 11 Jan 2013.
Papers may describe ongoing work, recent results, or opinions and approaches related to the workshop topic. A short biography of the author(s) attending the workshop needs to be included (100 words).
Papers will be peer-reviewed and the organizing committee will select up to 12 position papers and up to 8 demonstration proposals according to relevance, quality of results, research diversity, and likelihood for stimulating and contributing to the discussion. If accepted, at least one author must register for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference. Accepted papers will also be compiled on the workshop website.