The field of personal health informatics has received increasing attention within the CSCW
and HCI communities as health tracking becomes more affordable, accessible, and …

Background For many people, tracking health indicators is central to managing a chronic
illness. However, previous informatics research has largely viewed tracking as a solitary …

Objective: Contemporary health care places enormous health information management
demands on laypeople. Insights into their skills and habits complements current …

We conducted a field study of Mohalla Clinics in Delhi (India), drawing on Haraway's work to
highlight the importance of considering disparate, partial perspectives in the ecologies of …

This chapter will provide the backdrop for a volume that brings together a range of
viewpoints on health information technology and patient engagement. Though few in the …

Background: Advances in ubiquitous computing, smart homes, and sensor technologies
enable novel, longitudinal health monitoring applications in the home. Many home …

The design of patient-centred e-health services embodies an inherent tension between the
concerns of clinicians and those of patients. Clinicians' concerns are related to professional …

Despite the growing attention of researchers, healthcare managers and policy makers, data
gathering and information management practices are largely untheorized areas. In this work …

Technical reports normally concern the results of research project, not their plans.
Nevertheless, we believe it important sometimes that new ideas, reflected in a proposal to …

Objectives: Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) is a rapidly growing domain within the field of
biomedical and health informatics. The objective of this paper is to reflect on the past twenty …