Schedule at a glance
Slides, Recordings, and Handouts
Discussions and Perspectives

Synopsis

This course is designed to develop an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of what it means to introduce and study technology across health and healthcare. Students will be exposed to a variety of real-world examples, gain a user-centered understanding from multiple points of view, and develop the skills needed to design solutions to solve real problems.

The focus of HC4H is to learn how to use Human-Centered Design (HCD) to design and develop technology at the intersection of computer science and health. Students will learn regulations, ethical protocols, and methodologies to help them bridge technology and health. By the end of the class, students will have developed a design prototype and proposed a solution to address a real-world problem in healthcare.

Goals

By the end of the quarter, students will gain:

• Comprehensive understanding of ethics, privacy, and research regulations required to work in the healthcare field

• First-person experience in real-world medical settings and an understanding of the role of technology within them

• Comprehensive understanding of human-centered fieldwork in healthcare

• Exposure to a variety of methods useful for the collection of data from medical environments

• Knowledge to propose technology-centered research in the healthcare setting

• A clear understanding of how to plan to study or address a real-world problem in healthcare through technology

Textbooks and Readings

• Dominic Furniss, Aisling Ann O'Kane, Rebecca Randell, Svetlena Taneva, Helena Mentis and Ann Blandford. "Fieldwork for Healthcare. Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies" Volume 1 (Case Studies), Volume 2 (Guidance for Research).

• Anne M. Turner, Alyssa Bosold, Yong Choi, George Demiris, Andrea Civan Hartzler, Jonathan Joe, Julie Kientz, Katie Osterhage, Ian Painter, Miruna G. Petrescu-Prahova, Elizabeth Phelan, Dawn Sakaguchi-Tang, Jean O Taylor,  Stephen Thielke, Selena Xu, "The Essential Guide to Older Adult-Centered Design: Supporting Personal Health Information Management", US SOARING, 2020

Weekly Assignments

• Students will be assigned training and simple critiques of the assigned readings.
  
  
• One or two students will lead an online discussion for each of the on-site visits. Every students will need to lead at least one discussion. Every student in the class will be required to participate in the online discussion following one of the assigned perspectives: Patient/User, Healthcare Professional,  Technologist/Designer, Bioethicist, or Entrepreneur. Detailed information and perspective assignments are described on the following page: Discussions and Perspectives.
  
  
• The later part of the course will focus on the class design project, and students will form teams and submit group assignments every week to progress through their final deliverable, the Project Web Site.
  
  
• Last week will be dedicated to final project presentations.

Teams

Schedule at a Glance