(New Book) Fieldwork for Healthcare: Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems

I am pleased to announce the latest title in Morgan & Claypool's series on
Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies:

 

Fieldwork for Healthcare: Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in
Computing Systems

Dominic Furniss, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London, UK

Aisling Ann O'Kane, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London, UK

Rebecca Randell, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK

Svetlena Taneva, Healthcare Human Factors, University Health Network,
Toronto

Helena Mentis, Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County

Ann Blandford, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London, UK

Paperback ISBN: 9781627053198, $40.00

eBook ISBN: 9781627053204

January, 2014, 129 pages

 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00552ED1V01Y201311ARH005>
http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00552ED1V01Y201311ARH005 

 

Abstract:

 

Performing fieldwork in healthcare settings is significantly different from
fieldwork in other domains and it presents unique challenges to researchers.
Whilst results are reported in research papers, the details of how to
actually perform these fieldwork studies are not.

This is the first of two volumes designed as a collective graduate guidebook
for conducting fieldwork in healthcare. This volume brings together the
experiences of established researchers who do fieldwork in clinical and
non-clinical settings, focusing on how people interact with healthcare
technology, in the form of case studies. These case studies are all
personal, reflective accounts of challenges faced and lessons learned, which
future researchers might also learn from.

 

We open with an account of studies in the Operating Room, focusing on the
role of the researcher, and how participants engage and resist engaging with
the research process. Subsequent case studies address themes in a variety of
hospital settings, which highlight the variability that is experienced
across study settings and the importance of context in shaping what is
possible when conducting research in hospitals. Recognising and dealing with
emotions, strategies for gaining access, and data gathering are themes that
pervade the studies.

 

Later case studies introduce research involving collaborative design and
intervention studies, which seek to have an immediate impact on practice.
Mental health is a theme of two intervention studies as we move out of the
hospital to engage with vulnerable participants suffering from long-term
conditions and people in the home. This volume closes with an intervention
study in the developing world that ends with some tips for conducting
studies in healthcare. Such tips are synthesized through the thematic
chapters presented in the companion volume.
<http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00552ED1V01Y201311ARH005>
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Health-Preserving Technologies

Series Editor: Ron Baecker, University of Toronto

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