Exploring medical device design and use through layers of Distributed Cognition: How a glucometer is coupled with its context

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 330-341

  Furniss, Dominic ^a   Masci, Paolo ^b   Curzon, Paul ^b   Mayer, Astrid ^c   Blandford, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood glucose meter; Distributed Cognition; Ethnography; Glucometer; Human computer interaction; Socio technical system

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; GLUCOSE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

BLOOD GLUCOSE METERS; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; ETHNOGRAPHY; GLUCOMETER; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; COGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MECHANICS; MEDICAL DEVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONCOLOGY WARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; CANCER CENTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; COGNITION; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84924515660     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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