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Advance Program

Venue: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON K1H 7X7...

Usability and Healthcare Showcase, 08:30-12:40 in Clark Hall

Speakers from various types of healthcare-related organizations come together to share their experiences on researching the human factor and designing products, systems and services to meet user needs.

08:30 - 08:50

Coffee and networking

08:50 - 09:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:00 - 09:30

Translating Doctors' Needs Into Products That Save Money and Enhance Patient Benefit
Leonard Lee, Canica Design Inc.

09:30 - 10:00

Patient Safety: a systems approach
Rachel White, Human Factors Specialist, Healthcare Human Factors Group, University Health Network

10:00 - 10:30

Introducing Human Factors approaches into the operating room
Avi Parush, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Human Oriented Technology (HOT) Laboratory

10:30 - 11:00

Break (Morning coffee/tea)

11:00 - 11:30

Usability in Telecare Services
Jonathan Segel, Director, Systems Development and Integration Engineering,  North American CTO Group – Ottawa, Alcatel-Lucent

11:30 - 12:00

Design and Evaluation in the Context of Healthcare: a Case Study
Kirsten Carroll Somoza, UI/Interaction Designer, User Experience Team, Cognos Incorporated

12:00 - 12:30

Taking a User-Centered Design Approach to the Development of a Medication Incident Reporting System
Gary Bellamy, Business Analyst, Applications, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), and
Spencer Ross, Program Lead, CMIRPS, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

12:30 - 12:40

Summary and Closing Remarks

 

Lunch Break

12:40-13:30 in the Canada Room

12:40 - 13:30

Lunch Break - Light refreshments

 

Usability Exhibition

10:30-15:10 in the Canada Room

An exhibition by local usability, accessibility, and user experience practitioners working in the private and public sectors plus academia. Meet them, learn from them, and exchange ideas with them.

10:30 - 15:00

Make sure to visit the practitioners exhibits, including:

  • Adobe Systems Incorporated (Gold Sponsor)
  • Atomic Motion (Gold Sponsor)
  • Design Interpretive (Gold Sponsor)
  • Macadamian (Gold Sponsor)
  • Neo Insight (Gold Sponsor)
  • Phase 5 (Gold Sponsor)
  • Information Mapping Canada (Silver Sponsor)
  • Carleton University HOT Lab (Silver Sponsor)
  • CapCHI
  • DriveTraffic Inc.
  • Healthcare Human Factors Group
  • Ottawa Usability Consortium
  • T-Base Communications
  • Web-Insight
  • ...and more...
13:30 & 14:30 Come “See how it works”. Watch Live Usability Testing, using MORAE from TechSmith. Sessions will be ongoing in the Canada Room.
15:00 - 15:10 Concluding Remarks

More details to come...

All information is subject to change.

For more information, contact Gord Hopkins at ouc-info@ottawausability.org or (613) 836-0660.

 

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