Reframing Healthcare Design | Online

About this event

Figuring out how to frame the problem(s) to be solved is a critical early step in the design process. Three design experts will address this critical step as applied to healthcare.

About the Speakers:

Elizabeth Churchill joins us to talk about some personal perspectives on the potential for application, technology and service design in the arena of health and wellbeing. When she is not pursuing this personal passion, she is a Director of User Experience at Google. She is also the executive vice president of ACM SIGCHI and a distinguished scientist of the ACM. She has held a number of researcher and research management positions in the past, including Director of Human Computer Interaction at eBay Research Labs, Principal Research Scientist and founder/manager of the Internet Experiences Group at Yahoo! Research, a Senior Research Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, and a Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo Laboratory. She's published on a number of topics in journals, magazines, conference proceedings and books. Her co-authored volume Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems was published in early 2014 and she's currently co-authoring a book on Designing with Data, to be published by O'Reilly later in 2015.

Hugh Dubberly manages Dubberly Design Office — a consultancy focused on making services and software easier to use through interaction design and information design. As vice president, he was responsible for design and production of Netscape’s Web services. For 10 years he was at Apple, where he managed graphic design and corporate identity and co-created the Knowledge Navigator series of videos. Dubberly also founded an interactive media department at Art Center and has taught at CMU, IIT/ID, San Jose State, and Stanford.

Rajiv Mehta leads the strategy and design consultancy Bhageera Inc. and is an expert in family caregiving, consumer health, and emerging health technologies. He has led pioneering research on family caregiving and on the development of innovative consumer technologies. Earlier, he modeled atmospheric turbulence at NASA, sparked the digital camera revolution at Apple, and led innovation for Adobe, Symbol, and numerous startups. Board member, Family Caregiver Alliance. Co-organizer, Quantified Self. Columbia (MBA), Stanford (MS), Princeton (BSE).

Networking will begin at 6:30pm, the program begins at 7:00pm.