Aisling Ann O'Kane is a PhD student studying how mobile medical devices are used by people in everyday life contexts, not just clinical settings. She has conducted field studies observing how people with Type 1 Diabetes use blood glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and related apps throughout the day. Her research found that contexts like work, transportation, and social activities influence when and how people perform self-care tasks. Understanding real-world usage can help design mobile health technologies that fit better with people's lives. O'Kane's future work involves developing customized diabetes devices with users and studying consent preferences over time.
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How Mobile Med Tech Used Wild
1. How are
Mobile Medical Technologies
Really Used In the Wild?
Aisling (ASH-Ling) Ann O’Kane BASc MSc PEng
4th Year PhD Student in Human-Computer Interaction
UCL Interaction Centre
Department of Computer Science
University College London
2. • Devices used for the self-management of medical
conditions that have to be carried on the person
• Increasingly relied on as healthcare moves out of
clinical settings, especially for chronic condition self-care
What are Mobile Medical Devices?
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3. • Devices include blood glucose monitors, insulin pumps,
continuous glucose monitors, mobile apps, etc….
• These mobile devices are brought with people throughout
their day, every day
Type 1 Diabetes Technology
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4. Everyday Type 1 Diabetes Tech Use
They are used all day, everyday and everywhere:
at work, in the car, and in the bar!
5. Situated Qualitative Studies of T1D Tech
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Conducted contextual interviews in coffee shops and cafes,
collected diary accounts of use, and observed a meet-up in a
hotel bar with 41 people with Type 1 Diabetes
7. • Despite health concerns, adults choose when,
where, and how to perform self-care based on
context and user experience
• Everyday life influences how mobile medical
devices are adopted, carried and used
• Using situated studies can uncover real world
use, non-use, and misuse to influence design
• Engaging with industry partners in the UK and
beyond to implement these studies more broadly
The Potential of Situated Studies
9. • A.A. O’Kane, S.Y. Park, H. Mentis, A. Blandford, Y. Chen. “It wasn’t just me!”: Supporting the Search for
Chronic Condition Self-Management Strategies and Validation.” JCSCW, in submission.
• C. Vincent, G. Niezen, A.A. O’Kane, and K. Stawarz. “Can standards and regulations keep up with health
technology?” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2015.
• A.A. O’Kane, Y. Rogers, and A. Blandford. “Concealing or Revealing Mobile Medical Devices? Designing for
Onstage and Offstage Presentation” CHI 2015.
• M. Patel, and A.A. O'Kane. “Contextual Influences on the Use and Non-Use of Digital Technology While
Exercising at the Gym” CHI 2015.
• A.A. O'Kane, Y. Rogers, and A. Blandford. “Gaining Empathy for Non-Routine Mobile Device Use Through
Autoethnography” CHI 2014.
• A.A. O'Kane, H. Mentis, and E. Thereska. “Non-Static Nature of Patient Consent Over Time: Diabetic
Patients' Changing Privacy Perspectives” CSCW 2013.
Aisling (ASH-Ling) Ann O’Kane BASc MSc PEng
4th Year PhD Student in Human-Computer Interaction
UCL Interaction Centre
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Website www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/people/a-okane
Twitter @aislingannokane
Email a.okane@cs.ucl.ac.uk
How are Mobile Medical Technologies
Really Used In the Wild?
Notas do Editor
My name is Aisling O’Kane and I am a PhD student at the UCL Interaction Centre
My research has been funded by the EPSRC CHI+MED Project
I have been studying How mobile medical technologies are really used in the wild
So, what are mobile medical technologies
They are devices used for the self-management of medicla condtion and have to be carried on the person
Mobile medical devices are being increasingly relied on as care moves out of clinical settings
Particularly for chronic condtions such as type 1 diabates
People who have type one diabetes adopt and use a varirty of devices
Including blood glucose monitors, insulin, pumps, continuous glucose monitors, mobile phone apps, and newer devices being introduced on the marker
These mobile devices are brought with people for self-care pusposes
Throughout their day, everyday
And they really are used everyday and everywhere
Whether it is at work, in the car, or even the bar!
However this real world use is hard to capture for medical device manufacturers
So I employed a number of situated studies in London, LA, and Toronto
I used contextual interviews, a diary study, and I observed a tech meet-up
To see how people really used diabetes technologies in their everyday lives
And it turns out that their everyday lives influence use
Lighting can make the devices unreadable
Cold weather can bring on error messages
There is no place to put them in the gym
Extra devices are brought on holidats
They are not used on dodgy streets in London
They are used on top of tables in bars but under tables in restaurants
The are not used during job interviews
Family members can encourage use
They are hidden from clients at tradeshows
My research shows that
Despite health concerns, adults choose when, where, and how to perform self-care based on context and user experience
Everyday life influences how mobile medical devices are adopted, carried and used
Using situated studies can uncover real world use, non-use, and misuse to influence design
I have been engaging with industry partners in the UK and beyond to implement these studies more broadly
Showing the impact of this contirbution
I am also engaging with a number of clinical, charity, and industry partners on my next project
Examining how DIY hacker technologies can be further disseminated
To non-hackers, safely through an EPSRC Doctoral Prize that will start in October 2015 at UCL
My research shows the influence that user experience and context can have on the use of personal health technologies, despite health concerns
Through using situated studies to examine how mobile medical devices are really used in the wild