[Asis-l] CfP: Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare 2011 (WISH 2011)

[Madhu Reddy]

						 WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE 2011
				   Co-located with American Medical Informatics Association's Fall Symposium
							          October 22, 2011
								     Washington, DC
					           	http://wish2011.wordpress.com/ 
 
 
***OVERVIEW***
With the growing emphasis on the adoption and impact of Health IT (HIT), HIT researchers and practitioners are increasingly focusing on the design of interactive systems, human factors, and human-computer interaction. Despite this progress, however, there exists a largely untapped potential to create deeper and more profound connections among the biomedical, informatics, human-computer interaction, human factors, medical sociology and anthropology communities that would lead to the development of new methods, approaches, and techniques for removing the barriers to the adoption of HIT.
 
To address this limitation, the Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2010) hosted the 2010 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH 2010,  http://www.chi2010.org/wish/). The workshop attracted over 150 participants from a variety of disciplines and institutions and included a combination of invited panels, keynote presentations and research presentations. At WISH 2010, researchers and practitioners discussed the most pressing issues in the design, development, and evaluation of HIT and the impact of the new research on commercial HIT systems.
 
Building on the success of last year's workshop, the American Medical Informatics Association is hosting WISH 2011, which will be collocated with its Annual Symposium in Washington, DC, on October 22nd, 2011. The workshop will be a part of the pre-AMIA program, and will have a format similar to WISH 2010, including invited talks, panels and a peer-reviewed technical program.
 
***SUBMISSIONS***
Authors may present their work in one of two formats: Short Talks or Interactive Posters. Short Talks are brief oral presentations by the author, while interactive posters focus more on visual presentation and discussion between the author and attendees around the poster. We expect the majority of presentations to be interactive posters with a limited subset of authors being invited to give short talks.
 
Both short talk and posters should submit a five page (maximum length) paper in the AMIA submission format (https://www.amia.org/amia2011/proposals). Accepted submissions will be published in the WISH 2011 proceedings. Authors retain all copyright. We encourage preliminary ideas, design sketches, experimental results, policy and theoretical contributions, works in progress, and any other health and interactive systems related content.  The goal of the workshop is to foster discussion, encourage broad ideas, and bring together a wide interdisciplinary audience.  A submission should include:

                . A concise description of the idea(s)
                . Results, findings or theoretical discussion
                . The implications of the work to the interdisciplinary community who may be present
                . Recommendations for further investigation

Full literature reviews are not expected, although relevant citations should be included. The paper and abstract, as submitted for review, will be regarded as the final publication-ready version of your submission. Therefore, the abstract and paper submission must be clearly written, carefully proofread and correctly formatted.
 
***How to Submit***
Please email your submission in PDF format to WISH2011amia at gmail.com by 5:00pm PST 1 August 2011. You will receive an acknowledgement of the receipt of your submission.
 
If there are any questions or a need for further information, please send an email to WISH2011amia at gmail.com.
 
We look forward to seeing you in Washington at WISH.
 
Madhu Reddy and Lena Mamykina, Co-Chairs