Preface


The EICS4Med workshop brings together and develops the community of researchers and practitioners concerned
with the design and evaluation of interactive medical devices and systems, to deliver a roadmap for future
research in this area.

The workshop involves researchers and practitioners designing and evaluating dependable systems in a variety of
contexts, and those developing innovative interactive computer systems for healthcare. These pose particular
challenges because of the inherent variability — of patients, system configurations, and so on. Participants will
represent a range of perspectives, including safety engineering and innovative design.

The purpose of this workshop, then, is to build a community of researchers developing complementary but
interconnected approaches to engineering dependable and innovative interactive medical systems.


Ann Blandford, Giuseppe De Pietro, Luigi Gallo,
Andy Gimblett, Patrick Oladimeji,
and Harold Thimbleby

Workshop Chairs




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