Healthcare + Design

Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit - 1-2 December, 2009

borasim — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:09 GMT

http://www.mobilehealthcareindustrysummit.com/home2/home

Over 10 CEO Presentations From The Elite Of The Wireless/Healthcare Sector!

MeetWith Over 60 Industry Leaders From Network Operators, HealthcareProviders, (Nu-Medical) Device manufacturers, Investors, SystemsIntegrators, Body Networks Developers and the Sports and WellnessSector Coming Together in the Field of Mobile Healthcare Innovation andSolution, Including:

Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Group
Neil Jordan, Managing Director World Wide Health, Microsoft Corporation, USA
George MacGinnis, Assistive Technology Programme, NHS Connecting for Health, England
James Buckley, CEO, Tunstall, UK
Chuck Parker, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance, USA
Claire Thwaites, Head, United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership
Brian Dolan, Editor, Mobihealthnews, US
Erika Karplus, Vice President, Pharmaceutical Systems, Proteus, USA
Donald Jones, VP, Health and Life Sciences, Qualcomm
Marc Berrebi, Chief Executive Officer, eDevice
Chris Toumazou, Co-Founder, Toumaz Technology
Adam Cairns, CEO, Airedale NHS Trust, UK

Additional Title

Over2 Days and 4 Streams of Mobile Healthcare Content and Networking -Defining the Business Models, Strategy and Partnerships For Success,Including:

Vodafone Group CEO Keynote on ICT/Healthcare Convergence
6+ Interactive Industry Panel Discussions with Q and A’s
Investment Focus Stream
Everything’s Connected Healthcare Stream
Focused Workshops on Emerging Markets and Cross-Industry Co-operation
Lightning Showcase of New Innovative Companies and Services in Mobile Healthcare with Evening Reception

Topics Covered Include:

Why Mobile Healthcare? Healthcare Trends Which Demand A Robust Mobile Healthcare System
How Are Consumer-Driven Models For Mobile Healthcare Delivery Informing Public Sector Innovation?
Creating Standards For a Critical Service
What Are the Critical Factors For Mobile Healthcare Services Success From Strategic, Technology and Financial Perspectives?
Using Mobile Healthcare Partnership to Transform a Health System From Responsive Into Preventative
Using Mobile Healthcare to Improve Precision in the Diagnosis and Cure of Patient Illness
Freeing the Patient and the System with Intelligent Biometric Diagnostics
Defining the Data Management of Digital Healthcare
What Are The Technical Platforms For Mobile Healthcare Success? - SMS, Devices, Intelligent M2M
Globalising Mobile Healthcare: Regional Case Studies and Uniting the Service – South Korea, North America, Japan
Charting the Application of Remote Mobile Healthcare in Developing Countries and Emergency Medical Aid
Horizon-Gazing Panel Discussion: How Should the Evolution of Mobile Healthcare Take Form?

Pre Conference Workshop

Implementing Mobile Healthcare Success

Monday 30th November 2009
Led by: Vice President of Creative and Head of Health Care Expert Group, Robert Fabricant, Frog Design

Post Conference Workshop

Mobile Based Healthcare Models For Emerging Markets

3rd December 2009
Led by: Ruchi Bhatt, Business Head, Kayaguru Health Solutions Pvt. Ltd; Council Member, Healthcare, Gerson Lehrman Group, India

AsthmaKidCare Pro - AstraZeneca

borasim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:47:00 GMT

http://www.pulmicortrespules.com/professional/default.aspx

tag : asthma

7th International Design & Emotions Conference - submit by February 15

borasim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:19 GMT

Dear friends and colleagues,

We're very glad to announce the 7thInternational Design & Emotions Conference, to be held October4-7, 2010 in Chicago, hosted by the IIT Institute of Design and theDesign & Emotions Society.

Please find our first Call forPapers and Design Cases, attached and appended below. The deadline forfull papers, design cases and workshop proposals deadline is February15.

D&E 2010 conference website:
http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

About the Design & Emotion Society:
http://www.designandemotion.org/

We look forward to you joining us.

Best regards,

Judith Gregory, Keiichi Sato, Juan Salamanca
IIT Institute of Design
DE2010@id.iit.edu

* * * 7th International Design & Emotion Conference CFP - plain text * * *

First Call for Papers and Design Cases

7th International Conference on Design & Emotion Chicago, October 4-7, 2010 Hosted by The Institute of Design, IIT

TheInstitute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology and the Design& Emotion Society are pleased to invite you to participate in the7th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Chicago,October 4-7. The International Conference on Design & Emotion is aforum held every other year where practitioners, researchers andindustry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerningthe cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion. The conference willoffer workshops, research paper presentations, design casepresentations, and poster presentations. The conference language isEnglish.

Since this conference was first established in 1999,what many predicted then came to be. Technologies are now able toachieve emotional qualities and design examples using thesetechnologies abound. While we have made significant progress inresearch and practice relevant to emotional factors in design, manyfundamental questions remain unanswered and new issues have been raisedas we experience major changes in technological, social, cultural andeconomic environments. We are at the stage for another leap forward inthe development of new understanding and vision of emotional factors indesign through our critical reflection, innovative exploration andcollaborative endeavor. This conference calls for your contribution tothis exciting international forum of research and practice representingacademic, professional and business communities.

Full Papers, Posters and Design Cases
D&EConference invites practitioners and researchers to submit researchpapers and design cases. Submissions addressing issues of Design &Emotion are invited from extended communities beyond design studies,such as computer science, HCI, psychology, cognitive science, socialscience, humanities, engineering, health sciences, marketing andbusiness.

Full Papers are expected to contribute widelyapplicable long-lasting knowledge to the discipline. Accepted paperswill be presented in the conference program and published in theproceedings. If you wish, an accompanying demonstration can be alsopresented in a poster/demonstration session. The paper length is amaximum of 12 pages (approximately 4,000 words plus figures and tables)in the specified format. Unlike previous D&E conferences that askedfor an extended abstract as the first submission, starting this year,the first submission requires a full paper.

Posters are shortpapers of research presented in a form of A0 size (841mm wide x 1189mmhigh) poster in the interactive poster session of the conference.Demonstrations of the work are welcome in the session. The paper lengthshould be a maximum of 5 pages (approximately 2,000 words plus figuresand tables) and an additional page containing a full page image of theposter in the specified format for the publication in the conferenceproceedings. The first submission requires a short paper manuscriptwithout the poster page.

Design cases are invited for submissionto present your projects and your company's design projects thataddress issues and insights in design and emotion, communicate anddiscuss your approach to enhance emotional effects. Your case willcontribute to the accumulation of experience and sharing of knowledgein the field of design and emotion. Design case submissions mustinclude a summary description in a maximum of 4 pages (approximately2,000 words) in the specified format and a maximum of 30 slidesillustrating the design, design process and use. Summaries of accepteddesign cases will be published in the conference proceedings.

Call for workshops
Weinvite researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for workshops.Workshops will be held on October 4, 2010 prior to the main program ofthe conference. The purpose is to provide a platform for presentingnovel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than theconference itself. The format of each workshop is to be determined bythe organizers, but each workshop is expected to include ample time forgeneral discussion. A workshop proposal should include:

* The name of the workshop and the sponsoring organization
*A workshop position paper outlining the background issues, workshopgoal and approach (a maximum of 1,200 words). If accepted in the firstreview, the submission for the second review must include a positionpaper (a maximum of 4 pages, approximately 1,500 words)
* The names, affiliations, and contact information of the organizers
* The intended number of attendees (maximum and minimum)
* The planned length of the workshop (half day â€“ 3 hours or full day â€“ 6 hours)

Submission and Review Process
Submissionand review processes will be handled by our conference system. Allsubmissions will have a double blind review process with at least tworeviewers. Submissions accepted in the first review will receivereviewersâ€™ comments for necessary revisions for the secondsubmission. All submissions accepted in the second review will be askedto submit the final manuscripts in the camera-ready format. Thedetailed authoring guideline will become available at a later date onthe conference website.

Topics
Design & Emotion is theoverarching theme of the conference. This year, the conference adds aparticular focus on Design & Emotion in emerging societal issues ofour lives and living environments. Another focus is on strategic rolesof Design & Emotion in business. The areas of these foci includefundamental research into Design & Emotion that further enhancesour intellectual foundation as well as the emotional aspects of thefollowing topic areas:

Design for Wellbeing
Healthcare
Elderly Living
Food, Health and Culture
Universal/ Inclusive Design

Design for Environments
Sustainable Lifestyle
Product and System Life Cycle

Interaction and Context-sensitivity
Human-Robot Interaction
Product Adaptation
User Learning

Service Design
Modeling Experiences
Retail Design

Strategic Design and Business
Decision-Making
Business Models
Branding

Foundation for Design and Emotion
Temporality,Uncertainty and Polarity of Emotion Affordance, Semiotics, Value andEmotion Research Methodologies Design Methodologies TheoreticalFoundations Philosophical Foundations and Implications to Design

Important Dates
February 15 : Official deadline for paper, design case and workshop submissions
April 15    : Notification of acceptance for the first reviewing
May 15      : Submission deadline for revised papers
June 15     : Final acceptance notification
July 15     : Deadline for Early Registration - required for authors, to be in proceedings
July 31     : Submit camera-ready manuscript
October 4   : Tutorials and Workshops
October 5-7 : Conference

Join us in Chicago

The Conference Motto: Blatantly Blues
Chicagois the home of the Blues. The Blues expresses the emotional journey ofour life experience. Sorrow and joy, desire and apathy, agony andcomfort, and love and despair are woven into the colorful sounds of theBlues. Things and events in our life always have multiple meanings andmultiple emotional responses and so do the Blues. The 7th InternationalConference on Design and Emotion calls for rich discourse on a fullspectrum of complex emotional experiences and their implications toDesign. During the conference, you will also have opportunities foremotional experiences with the Chicago Blues.

Design & Emotion Society
TheDesign & Emotion Society raises issues and facilitates dialogueamong practitioners, researchers, and industry, in order to integratesalient themes of emotional experience into the design profession. TheDesign & Emotion society was established in 1999 as aninternational network of researchers, designers and companies sharingan interest in experience-driven design. The network is used toexchange insights, research, tools and methods that support theinvolvement of emotional experience in product design. Although theinitiative originated from the discipline of product design and designresearch, through the years practitioners have contributed from otherdesign disciplines such as interaction design and branding design and,in turn, benefited from the D & E network and activities.

Conference Organizers
Conference Chair: Judith Gregory
OrganizingCommittee Chair: Keiichi Sato Institute of Design Illinois Institute ofTechnology 350 N. LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois 60654 USA www.id.iit.edu
E-mail: DE2010@id.iit.edu

The conference website is open and will have more detailed information soon.
http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

Gli ambienti dei bambini - Monica Cristina Gallo

borasim — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:40 GMT

http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/ambienti-bambini-gallo-monica-frilli/libro/9788887923339

Gli ambienti dei bambini - Monica Cristina Gallo

Diaby - Premio Samsung Young Design Awards 2008

borasim — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:32 GMT

Milano. Al Museo di Scienza e Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" si èappena concluso il Samsung Young Design Award 2008. Tema di questaseconda edizione: "Digital Solutions for a Sustainable Life". Vinconoil primo premio due progetti, votati a parimerito. In questo filmatovediamo il Gruppo Diaby creato da Kinran Maral e Stefania Berselli, unbracciale orologio per bambini che rileva il livello di glicemia nelsangue.Servizio a cura di Daila Malafronte.

http://www.c6.tv/component/library?task=view&id=2209

http://www.marketingjournal.it/samsung-young-design-award-triennale-milano/

tag : diabetes, glucophone

The use and abuse of scenarios - McKinsey Quarterly

borasim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:10:52 GMT

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategy_in_Practice/The_use_and_abuse_of_scenarios_2463

Test-Driving the Networked Body: Philips DirectLife

borasim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:07:27 GMT

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kate-rockwood/bizzy-body/test-driving-networked-body-philips-directlife

Test-Driving the Networked Body: Philips DirectLife

BY Kate RockwoodThu Oct 15, 2009 at 2:57 PM

The3-D accelerometer has transformed mobile gaming (hello, iPhone),console gaming (thanks, Wii!), and now...fitness? The tech thataccurately measures your movements has birthed a new generation ofhealth monitors that track your daily activity and present it through adata-rich Web site. The big question: Can all that data be translatedinto a healthier lifestyle? I signed up with a group of Fast Company coworkers to test-drive one such device created by Philips; it's called DirectLife.

Philips is marketing the DirectLife device primarily to companies,which may be eager to front the initial costs of the program inexchange for healthier employees and thus lower health-care costs. Butthe device is also being sold directly to consumers. It costs $99, plus$10/month for access to the Web site and coaching after the initial12-week program.

Test-Driving the Networked Body: 4 Takes on Fitbit Features

borasim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:58:32 GMT

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kate-rockwood/bizzy-body/test-driving-networked-body-fitbit?partner=homepage_newsletter

Test-Driving the Networked Body: 4 Takes on Fitbit Features

BY Kate RockwoodSat Nov 14, 2009 at 12:39 PM

I've been eager to try out the fitbit since talking with its designer, NewDeal's Gadi Amit, this past summer (full disclosure: Gadi Amit is a regular, unpaid contributor to Fast Company's expert design blogs).The tiny, wireless $99 activity monitor is worn 24/7 and tracks stepstaken, calories burned, miles traveled, and even the quality andduration of sleep. It then syncs automatically to your computer so youcan dive deep into all that data and log your nutrition.

"The design challenge with the slew of new technologies that allowyou to monitor your health is to blend them seamlessly into modernlife," says Amit. So, how seamless and effective is the fitbit? Idecided to test-drive it to find out.

...

The data streaming out of this pint-sized gadget quickly becameoverwhelming, which is probably why I started ignoring some screens andclinging to that more holistic-seeming electronic flower. And the Website still felt too beta to help me neatly slice and dice my data intomanageable goals. Some days I burn 1,800 calories and some days I burn2,800--but unless I'm willing to create my own context by vigilantlylogging my food intake, those numbers don't mean much.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE 2010

borasim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:28:36 GMT

http://www.each-conference.com/

Join us at the EACH 2010 ‘International Conference on Communication inHealthcare’, at the Polo Zanotto, University of Verona, Italy.

Keynote speakers

Giacomo Rizzolatti Italy
Phyllis Butow Australia
John Heritage USA
Judith Hall USA

Important dates and deadlines

15 November 2009: Deadline for Symposia proposals.
15 January 2010: Deadline for submission of oral abstracts, poster presentations and workshops.

The2010 International Conference on Communication in Healthcare isorganised by EACH (the European Association for Communication inHealthcare) in association with Patient Education and Counseling, an Elsevier publication, and is hosted by the University of Verona.

EACHis an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation which brings togetherresearchers and trainers in the field of communication in healthcare.Its objectives are to facilitate the exchange of ideas and products ofteaching and research activities across a network of individuals andinstitutions in Europe and beyond.

Call for Papers

Submit abstracts by 15 November 2010 for symposia proposals and by 15 January 2010, for oral and poster presentations, and workshops, on the following topics:

Basic and applied research in clinical communication.
Teaching clinical communication skills.
Shared decision making in general hospital and hospital practice.
Communication and emotion.
Communication in cancer care.
Intercultural communication.
Patient participation and perspectives.
Communication technology and e-learning.
Psychophysiology and communication.
Research methodology.
Ethical issues in communication.

Design Bugs Out - Design Council, UK

borasim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:49:09 GMT

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/Design-Council/Files/Landing-pages/Design-Bugs-Out/

Design and research team from Design Council on Vimeo.