Evolving practice

Evolving Practice and Theory

Evolving pervasive health research into clinical practice.

Correspondence to: Dr. Oscar Mayora CREATE-NET Via alla Cascata 56D Trento, 38123 Italy E-mail: [email protected] During the past years there has been a growing research trend on investigating the use of pervasive computing technologies for their use in the healthcare domain. The research activity on this topic known as “Pervasive Health”, has been defined as a scientific discipline i...

Moving Target: Designing for Evolving Practice

The paper discusses the limitations of current HCI design methods to effectively support the design of new artifacts which radically change the ecology of practice. The notions of catachresis and utilization schemes are used to describe the changing ecology of practice. The hierarchical model of shearing layers is proposed as a useful tool to support the required designer’s consideration of evo...

Chronic lung allograft dysfunction: evolving practice.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) was recently introduced as an overarching term covering different phenotypes of chronic allograft dysfunction, including obstructive CLAD (bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome), restrictive CLAD (restrictive allograft syndrome) and graft dysfunction due to causes not related to chronic rejection. In the present review, we will highlight t...

Evolving Requirements in Socio-Technical Systems: Concepts and Practice

Changes in requirements are inevitable in the context of socio-technical systems (STS) that involve human organizations with their rules, as well as individuals and software systems. In these complex systems need for changes may emerge once software components come into operation, due to undesirable behavior of the STS, or due to variations in organization rules, laws, resources and STS’s compo...