Human-Data Interaction in Healthcare
This work addresses the problem of improving data interaction for healthcare professionals like doctors and nurses, but it appears incremental as it applies an existing HDI framework to a specific domain without claiming major breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the application of Human-Data Interaction (HDI) to healthcare, exploring how interactive systems can support user-centered data work in this domain, with a focus on addressing challenges posed by big data and available tools for healthcare professionals.
In this paper, we focus on an emerging strand of IT-oriented research, namely Human-Data Interaction (HDI) and how this can be applied to healthcare. HDI regards both how humans create and use data by means of interactive systems, which can both assist and constrain them, as well as to passively collect and proactively generate data. Healthcare provides a challenging arena to test the potential of HDI to provide a new, user-centered perspective on how data work should be supported and assessed, especially in the light of the fact that data are becoming increasingly big and that many tools are now available for the lay people, including doctors and nurses, to interact with health-related data.