Human-Data Interaction in Healthcare

TL;DR

This paper explores Human-Data Interaction (HDI) in healthcare, emphasizing how interactive systems can support, constrain, and generate health data, offering a user-centered approach amid increasing data complexity.

Contribution

It introduces the application of HDI principles to healthcare, highlighting its potential to improve data engagement and management for both professionals and laypeople.

Findings

HDI offers new perspectives on health data management.

Interactive systems can enhance user engagement with health data.

Healthcare data complexity necessitates user-centered HDI approaches.

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on an emerging strand of IT-oriented research, namely Human-Data Interaction (HDI) and how this can be applied to healthcare. HDI regards both how humans create and use data by means of interactive systems, which can both assist and constrain them, as well as to passively collect and proactively generate data. Healthcare provides a challenging arena to test the potential of HDI to provide a new, user-centered perspective on how data work should be supported and assessed, especially in the light of the fact that data are becoming increasingly big and that many tools are now available for the lay people, including doctors and nurses, to interact with health-related data.