Using trading games to interpret a health environment

• One of the major issues with the development and deployment of computer information systems is the lack of understanding between the designers of the system and its users • Systems are over complicated to address situations which rarely if ever occur • They demonstrate more about the underlying architecture of the system than an understanding of how they will actually be used • Users have unrealistic expectations of what the system can actually do for them • Designers have unrealistic expectations of the level of computer literacy of their users • This project aims to tackle some of these issuers by: • bringing together student designers and users in an important domain (health) • encouraging dialogue to develop an effective and useful product • The objective is to produce an economic trading game to illustrate some of the decisions that health service managers have to make • the software is intended to be used as a teaching tool within Health & Wellbeing