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

[m.c. schraefel]

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?

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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