Fostering Insight and Collaboration in Long-Term Healthcare through Collection and Visualization of Qualitative Healthcare Data

The Care and Condition Monitor (CCM) is a tablet-based, networked visual analytics tool for collecting, structuring and analyzing informal and qualitative healthcare data. Building off research into application usability and best practices for communicating complex information, CCM illustrates how visual analytics tools coupled with social communication within teams of caregivers enables capturing of longitudinal informal data that would otherwise go unrecorded. This expanded scope of information can support medical decision making by making it possible to analyze informal and qualitative health care data,creating a multi-dimensional holistic picture of a person‟s health care and condition over time

Visualization of residents in long-term care centres through mobile natural user interfaces (NUI)

In this poster, we present a set of NUI designs towards creating a social media platform for caregivers, which integrates automated analysis methods and natural interaction techniques to enable caregivers to capture, store, visualize, and analyze both formal data and informal information. Our research will evaluate whether NUI’s make a difference in supporting long-term caregivers

Workshop on designing the future of mobile healthcare support

This workshop aims to discuss and develop ideas on how healthcare services, mobile technologies, and visual analytics techniques can be leveraged and contribute to new ways of mobile healthcare supportive system designs. Designing contemporary mobile support systems for healthcare support requires a clear understanding of information requirements, behaviors and basic needs of users. Design must take into account the challenges of human-device interactions in the healthcare environment; the extension of the care environment beyond the institutional setting and the engagement of patients, facility residents and families in an extended circle of care; and issues of formal and informal data sharing and privacy. This workshop invites researchers and designers working in relevant fields to discuss, compare, and demonstrate effective design approaches that can be adopted to improve the designs of mobile support systems for interactive visualization in healthcare