Co-designing Customizable Clinical Dashboards with Multidisciplinary Teams: Bridging the Gap in Chronic Disease CareProviding care to individuals with chronic diseases benefits from a multidisciplinary approach and longitudinal symptom, event, and disease monitoring, in and out of clinical facilities. Technological advancements, including the ubiquitous presence of sensors and devices, present opportunities to collect large amounts of data and extract evidence-based insights about the patient and disease. Nevertheless, practical examples of clinical utility of those technologies remain sparse, and in specific focus areas (e.g, insights from a single device). This paper explores the challenges and opportunities of multidisciplinary clinical dashboards to support clinicians caring for people with chronic diseases. We report on a focus group and co-design workshops with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and HCI researchers. We offer insights into how technological outcomes and visualizations can enhance clinical practice and the intricacies of information-sharing dynamics. We discuss the potential of dashboards to trigger actions in clinical settings and emphasize the benefits of customizable dashboards.2024DBDiogo Branco et al.LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de LisboaInteractive Data VisualizationIntelligent Tutoring Systems & Learning AnalyticsChronic Disease Self-Management (Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.)CHI
Challenges and Opportunities of Using Redirection of Activity for Self-Regulation OnlineThis paper explores \textit{redirection of activity} as an intervention strategy for self-regulation online. We conducted an explorative study ($N$ = 19) of the browser extension \textit{Aiki}, which redirects a user from a self-defined `time-wasting' website to an online platform for learning programming (Sololearn, Codecademy, or Udemy). Based on quantitative measures alone, using Aiki decreased the participants' time spent on time-wasting websites on average, and increased programming knowledge. However, several users ended up avoiding\enlargethispage{20pt} their time-wasting websites entirely when Aiki was active, or they discontinued the use of the extension after `the novelty wore off'. Based on these effects, we qualitatively explored the user experiences and identified four challenges and four opportunities for using redirection of activity as an intervention strategy for self-regulation of time management in a browser. Our results suggest that this intervention strategy is promising, but careful design is necessary to strike an optimal balance between independence and regulation.2023NINanna Inie et al.IT University of CopenhagenHuman-LLM CollaborationPrivacy by Design & User ControlCHI
Assertiveness-based Agent Communication for a Personalized Medicine on Medical Imaging Diagnosis: Assertiveness-based BreastScreening-AIIntelligent agents are showing increasing promise for clinical decision-making in a variety of healthcare settings. While a substantial body of work has contributed to the best strategies to convey these agents’ decisions to clinicians, few have considered the impact of personalizing and customizing these communications on the clinicians’ performance and receptiveness. This raises the question of how intelligent agents should adapt their tone in accordance with their target audience. We designed two approaches to communicate the decisions of an intelligent agent for breast cancer diagnosis with different tones: a suggestive (non-assertive) tone and an imposing (assertive) one. We used an intelligent agent to inform about: (1) number of detected findings; (2) cancer severity on each breast and per medical imaging modality; (3) visual scale representing severity estimates; (4) the sensitivity and specificity of the agent; and (5) clinical arguments of the patient, such as pathological co-variables. Our results demonstrate that assertiveness plays an important role in how this communication is perceived and its benefits. We show that personalizing assertiveness according to the professional experience of each clinician can reduce medical errors and increase satisfaction, bringing a novel perspective to the design of adaptive communication between intelligent agents and clinicians.2023FCFrancisco Maria Calisto et al.IST - U. Lisboa, IST - U. LisboaExplainable AI (XAI)AI-Assisted Decision-Making & AutomationAI Ethics, Fairness & AccountabilityCHI
Articulating Soma Experiences using TrajectoriesIn this paper, we reflect on the applicability of the concept of trajectories to soma design. Soma design is a first-person design method which considers users' subjective somatic or bodily experiences of a design. Due to bodily changes over time, soma experiences are inherently temporal. Current instruments for articulating soma experiences lack the power to express the effects of experiences on the body over time. To address this, we turn to trajectories, a well-known concept in the HCI community, as a way of mapping this aspect of soma experience. By showing trajectories through a range of dimensions, we can articulate individual experiences and differences in those experiences. Through analysis of a set of soma experience designs and a set of temporal dimensions within the experiences, this paper demonstrates how trajectories can provide a practical conceptual framing for articulating the temporal complexity of soma designs.2021PTPaul Tennent et al.University of NottinghamFull-Body Interaction & Embodied InputCHI
Soma Design and Sensory MisalignmentWe report on a workshop bringing together researchers working in soma design and sensory misalignment. Creating experiences that make use of sensory misalignment has become increasingly common, often associated with virtual reality research. However, little attention has been paid to how to design such experiences. We argue that the practice of soma design is a relevant candidate method for designing misalignment experiences, since soma design brings with it concepts such as estrangement and disrupting the habitual as a path to design. We further argue that sensory misalignment may in turn extend soma design methods, adding methods for explicitly disrupting sensory perception using technology interventions. Finally, we draw on the findings of that workshop to discuss the ideas of: pluralism in experience; orchestration of overall experience; as well as the broader intersection of soma design and sensory misalignment approaches.2020PTPaul Tennent et al.University of NottinghamFull-Body Interaction & Embodied InputImmersion & Presence ResearchCHI
From Biodata to SomadataBiosensing technologies are increasingly available as off-the-shelf products, yet for many designers, artists and non-engineers, these technologies remain difficult to design with. Through a soma design stance, we devised a novel approach for exploring qualities in biodata. Our explorative process culminated in the design of three artefacts, coupling biosignals to tangible actuation formats. By making biodata perceivable as sound, in tangible form or directly on the skin, it became possible to link qualities of the measurements to our own somatics — our felt experience of our bodily bioprocesses — as they dynamically unfold, spurring somatically-grounded design discoveries of novel possible interactions. We show that making biodata attainable for a felt experience — or as we frame it: turning biodata into somadata — enables not only first-person encounters, but also supports collaborative design processes as the somadata can be shared and experienced dynamically, right at the moment when we explore design ideas.2020MAMiquel Alfaras et al.PLUX Wireless Biosignals S.A.Full-Body Interaction & Embodied InputBiosensors & Physiological MonitoringCHI