The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) advanced methods conference will be held in Washington, D.C. on October 23-24, 2019.
If this is of interest to you, you can find more details & register here (early bird registration ends soon): https://www.nursingscience.org/events/2019advancedmethods.
The Expanding Science of Sensor Technology in Research
Recent advances in electronic technology and data science have enabled monitoring of many human biological, behavioral characteristics, and symptoms, as well as environmental factors in real time and during daily life, as well as in health care settings. Coupled with advances in data science, sensor technology provides many opportunities for nursing science, including collection of data on temporal patterns and changes in these phenomena over time, remote monitoring, self-monitoring, and opportunities for feedback and communication between health care professionals and patients, among others. Emerging technology may present new opportunities to address research questions in novel ways and to stimulate new areas of inquiry. The purpose of this advanced methods conference is to provide a forum to assist participants in understanding the use of sensor technology in nursing research.
Topics of the conference are:
- The application of new and emerging sensor technology to nursing research.
- Approaches to selecting sensors that best address the nature of the phenomena to be studied, the physical nature of the sensors, human subjects and investigator needs, and approaches to data analytics.
- The principles of user-centered design in designing, selecting and applying sensor technology.
- Innovative approaches to data collection, data management, and data analysis using sensor technology.
- Areas of nursing research that would benefit from emerging sensor technology and data analytics.
September 17, 2019