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Sound sight: seeing with ultrasound.

Büscher M, Jensen G

Lancaster University, UK. m.buscher@lancaster.ac.uk

Recent advances in medical imaging, information and communication technology promise to support medical visual practice as well as everyday healthcare experience. However, this potential is not easy to realize. A better understanding of existing practices can inform socio-technical innovation. We draw on ethnographic observations and our involvement in the design of 'palpable computing' to examine the use of ultrasound imaging technologies in consultations with pregnant women with a view to ideas and implications for socio-technical innovation.

Published 13 February 2007 in Health Informatics J, 13(1): 23-35.
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