Human centered computing and medical data visualization

近年来，计算、通信和网络经历了惊人的发展。嵌入计算能力的移动的或手机甚至在发展中国家的农村人口中也在道路上找到了它们的踪迹。因此，人们对“HCC或以人为中心的计算”的兴趣越来越大。HCC不是一个新的领域，而是面向应用软件系统的分析、设计、开发和部署的一个新焦点。人机界面（HCI）和以用户为中心的设计（UCD）更多地关注界面层面，而HCC的范围则扩展到软件生命周期层面，并适当强调人的方面，并且在本质上相对更具跨学科性。在使用计算作为工具时，人类独自工作，与计算机系统交互或与计算基础设施辅助的其他人交互。随着计算变得无处不在，技术研究人员有社会义务不忽视弥合计算技术正在引入的“数字鸿沟”所需的努力。内容的创造、内容的动态、对信息的信任、地方相关性和可持续性，所有这些在社会发展的背景下都是重要的问题。在这个补助金申请中提出的研究是一个小的尝试，以解决上述问题的一个更大的目标。我们专注于三个样本的问题，是很好地定义在范围内的个人研究人员。选择的问题是匹配，社会相关性，提出的实验方法的可行性和测试场的可用性。解决的问题是寻求答案：如何将社会技术模型在软件需求获取和工程？什么是最好的方式来支持相互作用的临床研究人员在他们的追求，使用多个数据源，制定他们的假设，可能导致发现？如何通过在正确的时间以正确的方式提供正确的信息来增强慢性病患者的能力？建立适当的模型，模型的集成，开发基于模型的设计和原型，实验评估与真实的最终用户是共同的主题，这三个选定的子问题，在拟议的研究。

Computing, communication, and networking have gone through a phenomenal evolution in recent years. Mobile or cell phones embedded with computing power are finding their in roads even in rural population in developing nations. As a result there has been an increased interest in "HCC or Human Centered Computing". HCC is not a new field but a new focus in the analysis, design, development, and deployment of application oriented software systems. Human computer interface (HCI) and user centered design (UCD) focus more at the interface level whereas the scope of HCC is expanded to the software life cycle level with due emphasis to human aspects and it is relatively more interdisciplinary in nature. In the use of computing as a tool, humans work on their own interacting with a computer system or interacting with other humans assisted by the computing infrastructure. As computing becomes ubiquitous, researchers in technology have a social obligation not to ignore the efforts required to bridge the "digital divide" that the computing technology is introducing. Content creation, dynamics of the content, trust on the information, local relevance and sustainability, all these in the context of social development are non-trivial issues. The proposed research in this grant application is a small attempt towards a larger goal of addressing the above issues. We focus on three sample problems that are well defined in scope for an individual researcher. The problems are selected to match, social relevance, feasibility of the experimental approach proposed and the availability of test grounds. The problems addressed are to seek answers to: How to incorporate socio-technical models in software requirements elicitation and engineering? What is the best way to support interacting clinical researchers in their quest to use multiple sources of data in formulating their hypotheses that might lead to discovery? How to empower chronically ill patients by providing right information at the right time in a right manner? Creating appropriate models, integration of models, developing model based design and prototyping, experimental evaluation with real end users are the common themes to these three selected sub problems in the proposed research.