Mobile Decision Support in Healthcare

Dr. Catherine Burns
Director, Advanced Interface Design Lab
Associate Professor, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo

September 15, 2004
3:30 PM—5:00 PM
Davis Centre Room 1304
University of Waterloo

Slide Presentation in HI Alive Archive: Research Seminars Archive 2004-2005

Abstract
This talk will discuss two projects in the Advanced Interface Design Lab at Waterloo. The first project is a mobile decision support tool for diabetic patients. The second project, just started, looks at providing decision support for cardiac care nurses. In both cases, a cognitive engineering approach is being taken with the goal of developing “ecological” decision support tools. A basic background on cognitive engineering and ecological interface design will be given, arguing that these approaches fit well for the design of decision support tools for healthcare problems.

Biosketch
Catherine Burns is an Associate Professor in Systems Design Engineering and a member of the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics. Her specialty is ecological interface design and cognitive engineering and she has applied these concepts to domains such as nuclear power, petrochemical refining, aviation, and more recently, healthcare. In the healthcare area, she is currently funded by the Bell University Labs Programs, and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in partnership with the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She is the author of 98 publications in the area of human factors and interface design, and recently co-authored a textbook on Ecological Interface Design.