Research
QIRIS realizes research primarily in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Hospital Risk Management (HRM), with the aim to develop solutions that leverage the convergence of the two domains.
QIRIS is active in many other contexts, including:
- Pervasive Healthcare Management
- Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Healthcare
- Computer Supported Cooperative Work in healthcare
- Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
- Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare
- Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
- Usability and acceptability
- Barriers to adoption, and enablers
- Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
- Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
- Patient empowerment
- Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements
- Inclusive research and design: engaging underepresented populations
- User modelling and personalization
- Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environments
- Sensor-based decision support systems
- Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors
- Wearable and implantable sensor integration
- Autonomous systems to support independent living
- Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
- Telemedicine
- Chronic disease and health risk management applications
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring
- Smart homes and hospitals
- Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data
- Wellbeing and lifestyle support
- Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments
- Systems to support caregivers