EICS4Med 2011

1st International Workshop on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems for Medicine and Health Care

Aims and scope

Healthcare systems are increasingly characterized by the heterogeneity of devices. Such systems exploit various technologies such as ever smaller mobile devices, location and tracking tools, as well as wearable, portable, and implantable medical sensors. Furthermore, healthcare systems are increasingly characterized by the heterogeneity of their users. Designing highly interactive computing systems to take advantage of the potential of such a variety of devices to deliver reliable solutions to real problems is a major challenge. Estimates of the number of adverse events (i.e., distinctly bad outcomes for patients) in healthcare vary, but are generally agreed to be around 10% of patients admitted to hospitals in most advanced healthcare systems. Many of these events involve errors with interactive medical devices. Some of these devices are intended to be used by people without extensive training; if nurses, doctors or patients misread the devices or make slips when setting up doses then this can, and unfortunately does, result in incorrect treatment, and may even kill. Modern healthcare is relying increasingly on a variety of devices, both in hospitals and by patients or their carers at home. It is vital that they are both reliable and easy to use: that they are well-engineered dependable systems that interoperate with many other systems in the context of use.

Held in conjunction with in the ACM EICS 2011 symposium, the EICS4Med workshop aims to bring together top researchers both from academia and industry to stimulate research and create interdisciplinary collaboration links allowing the exploration of new frontiers in the area of interactive computing systems. The goal is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss innovations in the interrelation of medical, environmental, technical and human factors and their consequences for the design, use and acceptance of interactive computing systems in the healthcare field. The workshop will develop a roadmap for future research on design and dependability for interactive medical systems.

Topics

Submissions are invited that address some aspect of the engineering of human-computer interactive systems.
Topics include but are not limited to:

Interactive medical systems and services

• Advanced interaction devices
• Medical data visualization and analysis
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Collaborative and distributed healthcare
• mHealth systems
• Human aspects of future and emerging technologies
• Knowledge-based interactive medical systems
• Usability and accessibility of medical systems
• Technology acceptance and performance

Rigorous approaches to the design and evaluation of safe interactive medical systems

• Modeling interaction and interactive medical systems
• Engineering processes for interactive medical systems
• Integrating interaction design into the development process for medical systems
• Interactive medical systems specification
• Requirements engineering for interactive medical systems
• Software architectures for interactive medical systems
• Specifying users' activities within interactive medical systems
• Tool support for engineering interactive medical systems
• Formal Methods for interactive medical systems
• Evaluation and verification of interactive medical systems.