Out in the cold, the loneliness of working with doctors and patients

Working as an HCI researcher in the domain of healthcare can be challenging. The nature of the domain limits our degrees of freedom, which we need to do research of high quality. Doctors never have time, while working with them can be time consuming with little tangible outcomes. Patients from their side might bring the researcher in uncomfortable situations, adding little contribution to the research itself but leading to psychological stress and mental burden on the researcher. And as researcher, it is often difficult to get the research published to the full potential due to the limitations inherent to the domain of healthcare. We found sharing experiences very useful when working out solutions for these issues, so we would like to continue this discussion during the workshop.status: publishe