title: Human Factors for Nursing: From In-Situ Testing to Mobile Usability Engineering.
abstract: The tutorial goal is to familiarize participants with human aspects of health informatics and human-centered approaches to the design, evaluation and deployment of both usable and safe healthcare information systems. The focus will be on demonstrating and teaching practical and low-cost methods for evaluating mobile applications in nursing. Basic background to testing methods will be provided, followed by live demonstration of the methods. Then the audience will break into small groups to explore the application of the methods to applications of interest (there will be a number of possible applications that will be available for applications in areas such as electronic health records and decision support, however, if the groups have applications of specific interest to them that will be possible). The challenges of conducting usability testing, and in particular mobile usability testing will be discussed along with practical solutions. The target audience includes practicing nurses and nurse researchers, nursing informatics specialists, nursing students, nursing managers and health informatics professionals interested in improving the usability and safety of healthcare applications.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
authors.forename: Andre W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Kushniruk
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway.
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Borycki
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway.
authors.forename: Terje
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solvoll
authors.affiliation: School of Health, DuocUC Catholic University, Chile.
authors.forename: Carola
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hullin
mesh_terms: D006804:Ergonomics / Q000379:methods*; D063005:Health Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D012985:Software Design; D012986:Software Validation; D014584:User-Computer Interface