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Machines Making Medicine Safer – @chi_med joins forces with @cs4fn’s...
We’ve been working with the people behind the popular cs4fn (Computer Science for Fun) magazines as well as Teaching London Computing to create a special issue about medical safety, and the role that...
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Calling UK teachers – free copies of cs4fn issue on computer science and...
Free magazine for UK schools from cs4fn, about computer science, medical devices and patient safety. cs4fn (Computer Science For Fun, based at Queen Mary University of London, QMUL) has been providing...
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Suggestions needed: #films about error, safety, blame culture, resilience eg...
Last year at a CHI+MED project get-together I took along a DVD of a lovely film called The Dish, which I highly recommend. It’s about the 1969 landing on the Moon and how the Australian Parkes...
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Being smart; staying safe: why we make mistakes and how to avoid them – a...
Ann Blandford will be giving a ‘Cosy Science‘ talk at on Tuesday 24 June 2014 at a central London pub. Cosy Science is a monthly science gathering where a scientist introduces a topic, followed by an...
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How to get involved with the research on our chi+med project (making medical...
There are lots of ways to get involved with CHI+MED’s research – a really easy way is to have a rummage around in our publications and see what we’ve working on as we study ways of making medical...
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Book giveaway: 5 copies of ‘Fieldwork for Healthcare’ (Vol 1) to be won,...
CHI+MED staff from UCL’s Interaction Centre (UCLIC) have co-edited and contributed chapters to a new book called Fieldwork for Healthcare: case studies investigating human factors in computing systems,...
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Festival for Digital Health (pt 2) – 30 June 2014: human factors, human...
CHI+MED’s Ann Blandford and Jo Iacovides are giving talks in the ‘Putting people at the centre of digital health‘ session at UCL’s Festival of Digital Health, on Monday 30 June 2014. The talks take...
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Medical devices and Human-Computer Interaction – one day tutorial at...
On Sunday 26 October researchers from CHI+MED will run a full day tutorial on Medical devices and human-computer interaction as part of the NordiCHI 2014 conference taking place in Helsinki (from 26-30...
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Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) on everyday error and ‘temporary idiocy’
Yesterday I gave a talk to some students on science communication and public engagement with a particular focus on what we’ve been doing on the CHI+MED project. One of the themes running through our...
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Habit-forming: don’t forget to take your pills, and how do you remember them?
Update – now with added video, see below (at end) An example of a smartphone pill reminder app, from Krystal B on Flickr Katarzyna Stawarz, a PhD student from UCLIC (UCL Interaction Centre), has been...
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Prof Peter McOwan from CHI+MED is at @BrightonScience tomorrow w a show on...
CHI+MED’s Peter McOwan will be doing a one-off show at the Brighton Science Festival on Saturday 14 February (tomorrow). Mind Mistakes, Magic and Medical Machines 2pm, Sat 14 Feb 2015 Human brains are...
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AMIA webinar w Dr Dom Furniss from @UCLIC on medical device design &...
Edited 10 March 2015 UK time updated to reflect Daylight Savings Time Dom Furniss, from the UCL Interaction Centre who works on both the CHI+MED and Eclipse projects, will be giving a webinar on 12...
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CHI+MED’s at the @QMEECS Research Showcase on Wednesday 22 April 2015 @QMUL
CHI+MED (Computer Human Interaction for Medical Devices) is a multi-site research project taking place at UCL, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Swansea University and City University....
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Aviation and its contribution to healthcare (free talk in London, 25 Nov)
Via the Interesting Talks in London Twitter feed. Aviation and its contribution to healthcare Wednesday 25 November 2015, 6-7pm Museum of London, Barbican Barbican London EC2Y FREE – no booking, just...
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