Previous conferences
CHI+MED does not endorse any of these conferences but they are included for the benefit of other Human-Computer Interaction researchers and those working in areas related to patient safety.
Please see the expanded list of acronyms below.
A calendar of events is available from Integration-Design.org and see the conference postings at the Universal Usability and Interaction Design (UUID) blog.

Conference hall by Flickr user Martin Pilát
2012
- London Ergonomics Group - Medical Device Usability, 26 January 2012, UCL, London |
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- SDMD 2012 - 31 January - 2 February 2012, NH Munchen Airport, Germany
2nd Annual Software Design for Medical Devices Europe
- IHI 2012 - 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, 28-30 January 2012, Miami, Florida.
- Risk and Patient Safety 2012 (1000 Lives Plus) - 2-3 February 2012, Cavendish Conference Centre, London.
- HFES 2012 Symposium, 12-14 March 2012, Baltimore, Maryland.
Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Bridging the Gap'
- "Human Factors – Moving Forward" - 23 March 2012, City Hospital, Nottingham.
run jointly by Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) with the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.
- CHI+MED Patient Safety and Medication Error Workshop - 24-25 March 2012, Nottingham, UK.
- Interaction 12 - 1-4 February 2012, Dublin, Ireland |
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- NFM 2012 - 3-5 April 2012, Norfolk, VA, USA |
Proceedings: e-book / hard-copy
- Design of Medical Devices Conference - 10-12 April 2012, Minneapolis, MN USA |
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- CPSWeek 2012 - 16-19 April 2012, Beijing, China.
- EHF2012 - 16-19 April 2012, Blackpool, UK.
- PROMED 2012 - 2-4 May 2012, Brescia, Italy.
- CHI 2012 - 5-10 May 2012, Austin, Texas |
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- EDCC 2012, 8-11 May 2012, Sibiu, Romania.
2011
- IQPC Software Design for Medical Devices Europe, 19-21 January 2011, Munich, Germany.
- Patient Safety 2011, 8 February 2011, QEII Conference Centre, London.
- Healthcare Innovation EXPO 2011, 9-10 March 2011, Excel Centre, London.
- HCMDSS/MDPnP 2011, 11 April 2011, Chicago, US.
Part of CPSweek 2011
- EHF2011, 12-14 April 2011, Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire
- Embedding Clinical Human Factors, CHFG open seminar, 19 April 2011, London, UK
- CHI 2011, 7-12 May 2011, Vancouver, BC.
CHI+MED will be hosting the Interactive Technologies for Health Special Interest Group
- Design of Medical Devices, 12-14 April 2011, Minneapolis, MN.
- EWDC2011, 11-12 May 2011, Pisa, Italy
- Patient Safety Congress 2011,
17-18 May 2011,
ICC, Birmingham.
- Pervasive Health 2011, 23-26 May 2011, Dublin, Ireland.
- Science Communication Conference (British Science Association), 25-26 May, London, UK.
Theme: Online public engagement
- EICS, 13-16 June 2011, Pisa, Italy.
incorporating EICS4Med 2011, a workshop run by CHI+MED researchers (13 June 2011).
The proceedings of the workshop are now online.
- IEEE PHM 2011, 20-23 June 2011, Denver, Colorado.
International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management.
- HEPS2011, 22-24 June 2011, Oviedo, Spain
- Create11,
23rd June 2011, Shoreditch House, London, UK
The interaction design symposium.
- FM2011, 20-24 June 2011, Limerick, Ireland.
incorporating 4th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems (FMIS11) (21 June 2011).
Final call for papers for FMIS11.
- HCI2011, (BCS) British HCI 2011 Health, Wealth and Happiness, 4-8 July 2011, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
There are a number of HCI2011 workshops:-
- Design 4 Health Conference, 13-15 July 2011, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. |
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There is also a conference mailing list.
- CogSci 2011, 20-23 July 2011, Boston, Massachusetts.
- ECOOP 2011, 25-29 July 2011, Lancaster, UK
incorporating a workshop on Agile Requirements Engineering (Agile RE), 26 July 2011
- WISHWell 2011, 26-26 July, Nottingham, UK
3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell'11).
- CHI+MED Swansea Summer Workshop, 12 August 2011, Swansea University, UK.
- ECCE 2011, European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2011 (theme: Designing Collaborative Activities), 24-26 August 2011, Rostock, Germany.
The conference has three workshops
W1: Non-formal Modelling for Interaction Design
W2: Concepts of Agency and Situation in Cognitive Engineering
W3: Affective, Behavioural and Social Aspects in Collaborative Settings
- HFEHI2011, 5th International Symposium on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics, 26-27 August 2011, Trondheim, Norway.
(The symposium will be a pre-MIE 2011 event)
- MIE 2011, 28-31 August 2011, Oslo, Norway.
- Interact 2011, 5-9 September 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.
- ITA11, 6-9 September, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, North Wales, UK |
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Includes the first BCS Health in Wales / ehi 2 joint Workshop. More information in this PDF (284kb).
- Drips, Drains and Other Bits: What can go wrong in everyday nursing care, 7 September 2011, London, UK
- Health Informatics Scotland Conference 2011, 12-13 September 2011, Edinburgh, UK.
- HFES (HFES 2011) 55th Annual Meeting,
19-23 September 2011, Red Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- ECSCW 2011, 24-28 September 2011, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- SIGDOC 2011, 3-5 October 2011, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy.
See the Call for papers.
- HFES (Europe) 2011, 19-21 October 2011, Leeds, UK.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter.
- WISH 2011, 21 October 2011, Washington, DC.
Further information on this Workshop on Interactive
Systems in Healthcare is available in this PDF (29kb).
- Risky Business - 31 October - 2 November, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts.
- IHI 2011, (ACM SIGHIT) 9-11 November 2011, Miami, Florida.
This International Health Informatics symposium is part of the ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics (SIGHIT).
- IEHF Student Conference 2011 , 16 November 2011, Duxford, UK.
- Patient Safety Scotland, 23 November 2011, Edinburgh, UK |
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- Engage 2011: Making an impact, 29 November 2011, Bristol, UK.
Public engagement and the 21st century university
- USAB 2011 - Information Quality in eHealth, 25-26 November 2011, Graz, Austria |
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- OzCHI 2011 - Design, Culture and Interaction,
28 November - 2 December 2011, Canberra, Australia
- ITME 2011 - 9-11 December 2011, Guangzhou, China
2010
- Patient Safety Conference 2010, 4 February 2010, QEII Conference Centre, London.
- Patient Safety Congress - 25-26 May 2010, Birmingham, UK.
- Patient Safety Conference 2010, 20 July 2010, Royal College of Anaesthetists, London.
- ICCM (International Conference on Cognitive Modeling) - 5-8 August 2010, Philadelphia, PA.
- CogSci 2010 - 11-14 August 2010, Portland, Oregon - annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Further information from the conference available from the Science Network.
- HCI 2010 - 6-10 September 2010, Dundee, UK
- HFES (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society) - 27 September - 1 October 2010, San Francisco, US.
- Risky Business - Sharing ideas on risk, human factors, patient safety, teamwork and leadership,
18-19 November 2010, King's Place, London
Acronyms
AHFE – Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
BCS – British Computer Society
CBMS - Computer-Based Medical Systems
CHFG – Clinical Human Factors Group
CHI – Computer/Human Interaction / Conference in Human Interaction in Computing Systems
CogSci – Cognitive Science / Cognitive Science Society
CPSweek – Cyber-Physical Systems week
ECCE – European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
ECSCW – European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
EDCC – European Dependable Computing Conference
EHF – Ergonomics & Human Factors
EICS – Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
EWDC – European Workshop on Dependable Computing
FM / FMIS – Formal Methods / Formal Methods for Interactive Systems
HCIR – Human Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
HCMDSS / MDPnP – High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems / Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability
HEPS – Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics and Patient Safety
HFEHI – Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics
HFES – Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEHF – Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors
IHI – International Health Informatics
ITA – Internet Technologies and Applications
ITME - IT in Medicine & Education
MIE – Medical Informatics Europe
NFM - NASA Formal Methods
OzCHI - Australian forum for Human-Computer Interaction
PHM - Prognostics and Health Management
PROMED – Design and PROcesses for MEdical Devices
SDMD – Software Design for Medical Devices
SIGDOC – Special Interest Group on Design of Communication
USAB – Usability
WISH – Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare
WORCS -
Workshop on Open Resilient human-aware Cyber-physical Systems