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Safer together
A pioneer of digital contact tracing discusses the considerations that went into building the world's first national contact tracing app and ponders the future of the technology.
By Jason Bay, April 2022
Articles Tagged: Health informatics
Articles & Features
Integrating people-centered and planet-centered design
Exploring the many approaches and issues involved in developing technologies for wellbeing---from including environmental concerns to building long-lasting, transdisciplinary partnerships both inside and beyond the academy.
By Xuhai Xu, September 2021
Coming together during a time of uncertainty
By XRDS Staff, July 2020
COLUMN: INIT
The changing world of healthcare professionals
By Magdalena Stadin, Diane Golay, April 2020
SECTION: Features
Data work and digitization
As technology and healthcare continue to commingle, data work is being redistributed as powerful professions discard unwanted tasks and other occupations are transformed.
By Claus Bossen, April 2020
Designing self-monitoring data for chronic care
When a self-monitoring tool is developed and implemented in chronic care nurses' work, it changes the way nurses accomplish their work, creating new requirements. This article is based on a design ethnographic study that helps us understand the implications of these changes.
By Kateřina Černá, April 2020
COLUMN: INIT
Computer science and sports: The digital evolution of physical competition
By Patrick Carrington, Eliezer Bernart, July 2019
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Computer scientists in action: Christina Harrington, inclusive technology design
By Christina Harrington, October 2018
SECTION: Features: Motivating Participation
Gamified and persuasive systems as behavior change agents for health and wellness
Gameful elements and persuasive strategies can motivate and encourage people to take charge of their health and achieve their ultimate wellness goal.
By Dennis L. Kappen, Rita Orji, September 2017
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Quantified performance
A look at how athletic performance can be measured outside of the laboratory.
By Christina Strohrmann, Gerhard Tröster, December 2013
Fitness trackers
Digital activity sensors are no longer confined to research labs; they're in the wild and they come in lime green. They offer the promise to improve our health and even to affect the ways that we interact with others.
By Andrew Miller, December 2013
Toward smartphone assisted personal rehabilitation training
When utilizing internal sensors, modern smartphones are inexpensive and powerful wearable devices for sensor data acquisition, processing, and feedback in personal daily health applications.
By Gabriele Spina, Oliver Amft, December 2013
Capturing human motion one step at a time
The design, construction, and deployment of a pressure-enhanced IMU system that fits in the bottom of your shoe.
By Rolf Adelsberger, December 2013
mHealth @ UAH
New health care systems that integrate wearable sensors, personal devices, and servers promise to fundamentally change the way health care services are delivered and used.
By Mladen Milosevic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil Jovanov, December 2013