DVID 2018 - Workshop on Data, Virtual Interaction and Digital Health between China and UK

This workshop aims to update the research progress in eye-tracking, EEG and VR technology.
The workshop initially aims to review the current digital heath technologies and explore their potentials in real world. EEG, eye-tracking, virtual reality (VR) and social assistive robot are three incentive technologies we are investigating. Relevant business models and investment opportunities between China and UK will be introduced as well. The academia, mainly from psychology, health and IT backgrounds will present their findings in communicative behaviours and demonstrate cutting edge technologies, which facilitate wide range of communication in diverse groups, e.g. aphasia, autism and aged people, and scenarios, e.g. Brain-computer interface (BCI). In particular, a healthcare-driven HCI approach will be under discoursed and developed. Advancement in HCI and even BCI has more and more entered into our privacy. From the perspectives of economics, ethics and business, we will answer whether technology could bring more equality, inclusion and benefit for different groups. A concept of technology equity will be proposed and discussed in the workshop.
Motivation: Why is the topic timely and of particular interest to HCI participants?
Inspired by the theme on human-data interaction, visual analytics and interactive data visualisation, the proposed workshop would integrate research, business and health investment together. Digital health is the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society. Digital health is empowering people to better track, manage, and improve their own and their family’s health, live better, more productive lives, and improve society. It’s also helping to reduce inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and make medicine more personalized and precise. Venture investment in digital health in 2014 reached $4.1 billion, a 125% increase year-over-year. Remarkably, aggregate investing in digital health surpassed that in traditional healthcare and medical devices for the same time period.
Topics: What topics of interest will be covered by the workshop?
Tendency and business models in global digital health market
Tendency in Human-computer and Brain-computer interfaces (BCI)
Edge-cutting HCI technology in healthcare, especially EEG, eye-tracking, VR and big data
Cost-effectiveness analysis on HCI in digital health technologies
Potential and future ethical issues in digital health technologies
Workshop Format: The intended mix of events, such as paper presentations, invited talks, and general discussion
Morning session: Technology, HCI and Healthcar
9:10-:9:30am:
Virtual Reality Technology Application in Mirror Therapy, Dr Biao Zeng (iTalkTone Lab director, University of South Wales) (15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
9:30-9:50am:
TBC, Dr Ali Roula (Reader, University of South Wales, UK)
9:50-10:10am:
TBC, Dr Yingying She (Associate Professor, Software School, Xiamen University, China)