Call for participation: Workshop "Designing with Care"

An understanding of the context of use and the different human values are key factors towards creating acceptable pervasive healthcare applications. Involving humans and incorporating their values in the design approach is paramount in order to avoid dehumanizing and stigmatizing the user. By considering human values in the design process, designers and developers can create pervasive health applications that better fit the end user needs and desires.

The workshop aims to provide insights that contribute to the design methodology of pervasive healthcare technology in terms of creating a consistent set of methods and guidelines for design and evaluation of pervasive health applications. The focus will be on human values in relation to pervasive technology.

The workshop brings together researchers, designers and practitioners - with a clear interest in the areas of human centered design and evaluation and pervasive technologies for healthcare - that contribute to a vivid discussion leading to improved methods and tools that cope with human values in designing pervasive health applications with care.

Birgit Morlion (program manager eHealth, IBBT ) and Ann Ackaert ( Senior Researcher, IBBT - IBCN - UGent) are members of the program committee.

More information about the workshop can be found on http://www.designingwithcare09.org/.