I-HDS (Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science) invites you to join its Seminar Series, Wednesday, March 22^nd at 12:00pm via Zoom Conferencing.

Our guest speaker will be Andrew Berry, PhD, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University. 

Talk Title: "Human-centered design methods: Examples from designing support for people with multiple chronic conditions."

Biography:

Dr. Andrew Berry is an Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington (2019), and completed a National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Washington (2021). Dr. Berry has over a decade of experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to facilitate person-centered care, with a focus on user experience with information technology and identifying health outcomes that are meaningful to patients.

Background:

This talk will give a brief introduction to human-centered design methods. Then, it will illustrate key human-centered design methods using examples from Dr. Berry’s research program, which aims to promote person-centered health care for people with multiple chronic conditions.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the presentation the audience will understand:

1. Understand the motivation and benefits of incorporating human-centered design methods in clinical science research.

2. Understand how key human-centered design methods can be applied in clinical science research.

3. Understand how digital health tools can make care more person-centered for people with multiple chronic conditions.

Suggested Reading:

Andrew B. L. Berry, Catherine Y. Lim, Tad Hirsch, Andrea L. Hartzler, Linda M. Kiel, Zoë A. Bermet, and James D. Ralston. 2019. Supporting Communication About Values Between People with Multiple Chronic Conditions and their Providers. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300700

Andrew B.L. Berry, Catherine Y. Lim, Calvin A. Liang, Andrea L. Hartzler, Tad Hirsch, Dawn M. Ferguson, Zoë A. Bermet, and James D. Ralston. 2021. Supporting Collaborative Reflection on Personal Values and Health. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2: 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476040