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。甚至在发展中国家的农村人口中，嵌入计算能力的移动或手机也在路上找到了它们的踪迹。因此，人们对“以人为中心的计算”越来越感兴趣。在面向应用的软件系统的分析、设计、开发和部署中，协同设计不是一个新的领域，而是一个新的焦点。人机界面(HCI)和以用户为中心的设计(UCD)更多地集中在界面层面，而人机界面的范围扩展到软件生命周期层面，充分重视人的方面，并且具有相对较强的跨学科性质。在将计算作为一种工具使用时，人类自己工作，与计算机系统交互，或在计算基础设施的帮助下与其他人交互。随着计算变得无处不在，技术研究人员有一种社会义务，不能忽视为弥合计算技术正在引入的“数字鸿沟”所需的努力。在社会发展的背景下，内容创造、内容的动态化、对信息的信任、地方相关性和可持续性，所有这些都不是微不足道的问题。在这项赠款申请中拟议的研究是朝着解决上述问题的更大目标的一次小尝试。我们专注于三个样本问题，这些问题在个人研究人员的范围内定义得很好。选择的问题是匹配的，社会相关性，所提出的实验方法的可行性，以及试验场的可用性。解决的问题是寻求以下问题的答案：如何将社会技术模型合并到软件需求获取和工程中？什么是最好的方式来支持互动的临床研究人员在他们寻求使用多种数据来源来阐述他们的假设，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？创建合适的模型、集成模型、开发基于模型的设计和原型、与真实终端用户进行实验评估是本研究中选择的三个子问题的共同主题。

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.