Strategies for engaging clinical participants in the co-design of software for healthcare domains

Abstract

Co-design is an effective method for designing software, but implementing it within the clinical setting comes with a set of unique challenges. This makes recruitment and engagement of participants difficult, which has been demonstrated in our study. Our work focused on designing and evaluating a data annotation tool, however, different types of interventions had to be carried out due to poor engagement with the study. We evaluated the effectiveness and feasibility of each of these strategies, their applicability to different stages of co-design research and discussed the barriers to participation present among participants from a clinical background.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, presented at Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) Symposium at ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hamburg 202