http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:36:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/#comment-3433 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:14:46 +0000 http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/#comment-3433 [...] I’ve been coming across this ‘Healthcare experience’ discussion a lot lately. Last month as part of a workshop at IIT Kanpur we gave students the problem of redesigning  the healthcare system at the IIT through technology interventions (most groups came up with hybrid solutions - website and mobile SMS, mobiles and the IIT-wide intercom facility and such). One student group found through their discussions with staff and students at the healthcare center that patients felt doctors were ‘not touching us enough, not talking to us enough, not hearing us intently enough’. I also recall reading in Dan Pink’s Whole New Mind recently that several medical schools in North America have been teaching their students ‘empathy’, ’story telling’, ‘role playing’ and other such softer skills - which sounds like a good move. I’m still skeptical though - will the medical profession ever embrace an open-source approach towards sharing medical knowledge and conducting treatments? Do they need to? [...] […] I’ve been coming across this ‘Healthcare experience’ discussion a lot lately. Last month as part of a workshop at IIT Kanpur we gave students the problem of redesigning  the healthcare system at the IIT through technology interventions (most groups came up with hybrid solutions - website and mobile SMS, mobiles and the IIT-wide intercom facility and such). One student group found through their discussions with staff and students at the healthcare center that patients felt doctors were ‘not touching us enough, not talking to us enough, not hearing us intently enough’. I also recall reading in Dan Pink’s Whole New Mind recently that several medical schools in North America have been teaching their students ‘empathy’, ’story telling’, ‘role playing’ and other such softer skills - which sounds like a good move. I’m still skeptical though - will the medical profession ever embrace an open-source approach towards sharing medical knowledge and conducting treatments? Do they need to? […]

]]> http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/#comment-3423 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:29:02 +0000 http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/#comment-3423 I am really looking for more workshops in the Bangalore community. In particular on topics like prototyping, ethnography etc., I am really looking for more workshops in the Bangalore community. In particular on topics like prototyping, ethnography etc.,

]]> http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/#comment-3190 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:21:29 +0000 http://amitpande.com/2008/03/01/reflections-from-interaction-design-workshop-at-iit-kanpur/#comment-3190 [...] Sufistically Speaking… wrote an interesting post today on Reflections from Interaction Design workshop at IIT KanpurHere’s a quick excerptReflections from Interaction Design workshop at IIT Kanpur Posted by: Amit Pande, in User Experience, Design, Education In mid February I traveled to IIT Kanpur with my colleague Adesh. We spent a good three days in the company of design students and faculty in the midst of the hustle bustle of ‘Techkriti’ - the annual IITK technical fest (read: a love fest for geeks and robo-heads) and the quaint (imagine peacocks walking outside your window) and picturesque IIT campus. On Friday, we met [...] […] Sufistically Speaking… wrote an interesting post today on Reflections from Interaction Design workshop at IIT KanpurHere’s a quick excerptReflections from Interaction Design workshop at IIT Kanpur Posted by: Amit Pande, in User Experience, Design, Education In mid February I traveled to IIT Kanpur with my colleague Adesh. We spent a good three days in the company of design students and faculty in the midst of the hustle bustle of ‘Techkriti’ - the annual IITK technical fest (read: a love fest for geeks and robo-heads) and the quaint (imagine peacocks walking outside your window) and picturesque IIT campus. On Friday, we met […]

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