[eHealth] Re: preparing for the panel: your thoughts on topics

[Robert Jacob]

 > 2) From Robert's point about interruption (if i'm hearing this
 > correctly) - that much of what we want to do will often involve
 > monitoring. And that most monitoring is disruptive at some level. How
 > do we address that? Might folks just say this is a temporary issue
 > and as sensors get more miniature, that distraction will be less, so
 > so what?

I agree, it's temporary...

 > Or no matter what, what are the design issues around quite
 > representations/interactions with the interfaces - no matter how
 > bulky or not the sensors are.

...but these issues won't go away.

So I was thinking of the *output* of the system, more than the
sensors.  What mechanisms could it use to tell you to eat more veggies
and walk up the stairs -- without annoying/interrupting you,
presumably you're doing some other primary task, you're not thinking
about your health most of the time, so our output is usually sort of a
secondary task/interruption.

--Rob


m.c. schraefel wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> The health panel is coming up in 9 days time, and so here are two actions:
> 
> 1) checking out the proposed topics for focusing discussions and
> 2) picking which topic/team you'd like to participate on for the panel
> 
> 
> I've started with what i think are three topics that seem to be 
> coming from the posts/wiki:
> 
> 
> 1) getting health information to folks whose only access to web data 
> is a cell phone.
> - this was prompted both by Gary's interest with HIV info, but also 
> Sonny's work on being able to let folks track health information 
> about themselves - workouts and so on - via portable devices - to 
> support awareness of their progress.
> 
> Are these types of info capture/representation related?
> 
> 
> 2) From Robert's point about interruption (if i'm hearing this 
> correctly) - that much of what we want to do will often involve 
> monitoring. And that most monitoring is disruptive at some level. How 
> do we address that? Might folks just say this is a temporary issue 
> and as sensors get more miniature, that distraction will be less, so 
> so what?
> 
> Or no matter what, what are the design issues around quite 
> representations/interactions with the interfaces - no matter how 
> bulky or not the sensors are.
> 
> 3) social/ethical issues and design
> When we talk about where does policy like "transparency" fit into 
> design of capturing health information. This question seems less 
> about designing information to be more tractable and more about what 
> happens when we move outside info viz concerns into the social - when 
> we look at incorporating our ethical agenda into design?
> 
> This is inspired by Sunny's concerns.
> 
> 4) is there another topic we're missing?
> 
> ------------------
> 
> My question/challenge is that these might be the best topics for 
> focusing around the panel - how we might present a set of HCI issues 
> for an audience's consideration.
> 
> My question is also, who on the panel would like to work with which 
> topic, and we can have teams develop a presentation on each topic 
> between now and the panel next wed.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> SO
> ACTIONS:
> 1)agreement on or refinement of topics?
> 
> 
> 2) posting to the list which about which of the three topics you'd 
> like to participate
> 
> If you could have a fast think and post today, that would be grand.
> 
> thanks
> mc
> 
> 
> 
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