Title
Negotiating boundaries: managing disease at home
Abstract
To move treatment successfully from the hospital to that of technology assisted self-care at home, it is vital in the design of such technologies to understand the setting in which the health IT should be used. Based on qualitative studies we find that people engage in elaborate boundary work to maintain the order of the home when managing disease and adopting new healthcare technology. In our analysis we relate this boundary work to two continuums of visibility-invisibility and integration-segmentation in disease management. We explore five factors that affect the boundary work: objects, activities, places, character of disease, and collaboration. Furthermore, the processes are explored of how boundary objects move between social worlds pushing and shaping boundaries. From this we discuss design implications for future healthcare technologies for the home.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1753326.1753509
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
boundary work,social world,future healthcare technology,negotiating boundary,disease management,design implication,elaborate boundary work,boundary object,qualitative study,new healthcare technology,healthcare technology,self care
Health care,Disease,Health technology,Computer science,Boundary-work,Knowledge management,Qualitative research,Boundary object,Disease management,Negotiation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
1.32
18
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rikke Aarhus1552.58
Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard21358.27