[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-727
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EICS4Med-2011
Engineering Interactive Computing Systems for Medicine and Health Care 2011


Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems for Medicine and Health Care (EICS4Med 2011)

co-located with the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2011

Pisa, Italy, June 13, 2011.


Edited by

Ann Blandford *
Giuseppe De Pietro **
Luigi Gallo **
Andy Gimblett ***
Patrick Oladimeji ***
Harold Thimbleby ***

* UCLIC - University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
** ICAR - CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy
*** FIT Lab - Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales




Table of Contents

  1. The visible and the invisible: Distributed Cognition for medical devices 1-6
    Dominic Furniss, Ann Blandford, Atish Rajkomar, Chris Vincent, Astrid Mayer
  2. WOAD, A Platform to Deploy Flexible EPRs in Full Control of End-Users 7-12
    Federico Cabitza, Stefano Corna, Iade Gesso, Carla Simone
  3. Surgical simulators integrating virtual and physical anatomies 13-18
    Marina Carbone, Sara Condino, Vincenzo Ferrari, Mauro Ferrari, Franco Mosca
  4. Video see-through in the clinical practice 19-24
    Vincenzo Ferrari, Mauro Ferrari, Franco Mosca
  5. Survivable and Scalable Wireless Solution for E-health and E-emergency Applications 25-29
    Abdellah Chehri
  6. Care & Prepare - Usability Engineering for Mass Casualty Incidents 30-35
    Martin Christof Kindsmüller, Tilo Mentler, Michael Herczeg, Timo Rumland
  7. Coordination in Perioperative Systems - A Tacit View 36-41
    Anke Dittmar, Robert Kühn, Peter Forbrig
  8. Design of Perceptualization Applications in Medicine 42-47
    Jonas Forsslund, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs, Karl-Johan Lundin Palmerius
  9. Virtual Reality Based Rehabilitation and Game Technology 48-52
    Alessandro De Mauro
  10. Towards Dependable Number Entry for Medical Devices 53-58
    Abigail Cauchi, Paul Curzon, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Andy Gimblett, Huayi Huang, Paul Lee, Yunqiu Li, Paolo Masci, Patrick Oladimeji, Rimvydas Ruksenas, Harold Thimbleby
  11. Comparing Actual Practice and User Manuals: A Case Study Based on Programmable Infusion Pumps 59-64
    Ann Blandford, Abigail Cauchi, Paul Curzon, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Dominic Furniss, Andy Gimblett, Huayi Huang, Paul Lee, Yunqiu Li, Paolo Masci, Patrick Oladimeji, Atish Rajkomar, Rimvydas Ruksenas, Harold Thimbleby
  12. Visualization and Interaction System of Virtual Organs for Surgical Planning 65-68
    Lucio T. De Paolis, Giovanni Aloisio
  13. Design and Prototypical Development of a Web Based Decision Support System for Early Detection of Sepsis in Hematology 69-74
    Andreas Wicht, Gerrit Meixner, Ulrike Klein
  14. User-Centered Design for Citizens' Empowerment through the Portal of the Italian Ministry of Health 75-80
    Tiziana Catarci, Maddalena D'Addario, Paolo Felli, Laura Franceschetti, Domenico Lembo, Massimo Mecella, Tatiana Pipan, Alessandro Russo, Annarita Vestri, Paolo Villari


The whole proceedings can also be downloaded as a single file (PDF, including preface, organization and table of contents).

Please see the workshop website for further details.



07-Jun-2011: submitted by Ann Blandford, Giuseppe De Pietro, Luigi Gallo, Andy Gimblett, Patrick Oladimeji, and Harold Thimbleby
08-Jun-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org