Mit Bildern die Sprachbarriere überwinden

Die Kommunikation mit Gesundheitspersonal ist schwierig, wenn man die Sprache nicht versteht. Erst recht in Notfällen und wenn es um Kinder geht. Eine interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Forscher*innen der Berner Fachhochschule Gesundheit und der Hochschule der Künste HKB hat deshalb «Sprechende Bilder» entwickelt. Eine Kommunikationshilfe für die Verwendung im Kindernotfall

How to Design Successful Participatory Design Workshops for Digital Health Solutions?

Participatory design (PD) is increasingly used to support design and development of digital health solutions. The involves representatives of future user groups and experts to collect their needs and preferences and ensure easy to use and useful solutions. However, reflections and experiences with PD in designing digital health solutions are rarely reported. The objective of this paper is to collect those experiences including lessons learnt and moderator experiences, and to identify challenges. For this purpose, we conducted a multiple case study to explore the skill development process required to successfully design a solution in the three cases. From the results, we derived good practice guidelines to support designing successful PD workshops. They include adapting the workshop activities and material to the vulnerable participant group and considering their environment and previous experiences, planning sufficient time for preparation and supporting the activities with appropriate material. We conclude that PD workshop results are perceived as useful for designing digital health solutions, but careful design is very relevant

Digi-Care: Exploring the Impacts of Digitization on Nursing Work in Switzerland

In this paper we present first findings of the Digi-Care project, a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research project investigating the impacts of digitization on nursing work practices and in particular the transmission of patient care information within and beyond nursing work practices. We completed the initial data collection of the funded 3-year research project and report on a plethora of significant and critical IT-related events. Some of them can be attributed to usability issues