Category Archives: events – conferences

Workshop at #OzCHI – SmartHealth: 7th International Workshop on Technologies for Health and Wellbeing

There’s a call for papers (submission date 28 August 2015) for the SmartHealth workshop that’s taking place on 7 December as part of OzCHI 2015, Australia’s annual conference on Human-Computer Interaction, to be held in Melbourne between 7th and 10th … Continue reading

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Call for submissions – we’re having a symposium on interactive medical devices in Reading (UK) in June

Patient Safety with Interactive Medical Devices: a multi-disciplinary symposium Reading, UK; 24th–25th June 2015 http://www.chi-med.ac.uk/symposium2015/ The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of patient safety and interactive medical devices (for example … Continue reading

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Medical devices and Human-Computer Interaction – one day tutorial at #NordiCHI2014, w CHI+MED

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 October 2014). Gerrit Niezen, Karen Li, Patrick Oladimeji … Continue reading

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Animal-computer interaction at #NordiCHI14, via @realhamed

People interested in the interaction between cats and, say, iPads are well served on the internet, including YouTube where the search terms ‘cats ipad’ brings up ‘about 221,000 results’. Cats have been recorded enthusiastically ‘playing’ games originally intended for people … Continue reading

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[Free, Bridgend] NAMDET & MHRA Roadshow on medical devices (regulation, incident reporting) – 7 July 2014

This is not a CHI+MED event but we’re happy to share information about it. One of the organisers, Paul Lee (a medical devices training manager at the Singleton Hospital in Swansea), is on CHI+MED’s Advisory Group. He is also the … Continue reading

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Patient Safety Congress, Liverpool 21-22 May 2014 – #ptsafety

Please note that CHI+MED doesn’t endorse these conferences or events but we think you might like to know about them. If you are a member of CHAIN (Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network) you can get a 10% discount, contact … Continue reading

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MEDTEC – events in London & Stuttgart for medical device designers

CHI+MED’s Chris Vincent, from UCL’s Interaction Centre, will be speaking at two MEDTEC events in London (May) and and Stuttgart (June), details below. MEDTEC UK: 14-15 May 2014, Olympia, London Chris is speaking on the second day of the conference … Continue reading

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Medical devices, human factors, #hci, ergonomics, error – tweets from various conferences (a collection of collections)

Event tweets that have been tagged with a hashtag can be viewed in real-time (both by conference attendees and those watching along at home) but they can also be collected together later as a record of the event. Picture credit: … Continue reading

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Call for participation: IDHF2014 – interaction design, human factors, usability, #HCI, error

CHI+MED researchers from Swansea University (Huawei Tu and Yunqiu Li) and UCL (Chris Vincent) are co-organising the international symposium on Interaction Design and Human Factors in Kochi, Japan (25-27 November 2014) and the call for participation opens on 1 April … Continue reading

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Festival for Digital Health – call for papers (for UCL students and non-UCL student collaborators)

The Festival for Digital Health is an overarching event held at UCL between 20 June and 3 July 2014. This is a call for submissions for part of the festival aimed at UCL students and collaborators. The student poster presentations … Continue reading

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