Clara Schaarup
Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Louise Pape-Haugaard
Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Stine Veje Hangaard
Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Albena Mihovska
Department of Electronic System, Aalborg University, Denmark
Gunnar Hartvigsen
Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Ole K. Hejlesen
Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
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Published in: SHI 2015, Proceedings from The 13th Scandinavien Conference on Health Informatics, June 15-17, 2015, Tromsø, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 115:4, p. 19-24
Published: 2015-06-26
ISBN: 978-91-7685-985-8
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Worldwide, the number of collaboration activities and largescale projects (LSPs) increases. According to Harvard Business Review, LSPs contain several challenges related to strategy, interdependence, teaming, culture, norms, leadership, and different educational background. eWALL is an ongoing LSP with 14 partners where several evaluation methods are used, including Participatory Heuristic Evaluation. The applied method can be seen as a two-level approach: First, the eWALL system was evaluated using Participatory Heuristic Evaluation and, second, results of the Participatory Heuristic Evaluation were assessed by groups of project participants. Using the method and discussing the results in these meetings, not only focused on system improvements, but also facilitated fruitful discussions related to the overall goal, challenges, and progression in the project. Participatory Heuristic Evaluation proved useful for evaluating the system, and prompted the idea of using the formalism, i.e. as a collaborative backbone, at a higher managerial level to tackle some of the challenges associated with LSPs. In order to refine and prove the benefit of using Participatory Heuristic Evaluation as a collaborative backbone, further studies should be conducted.
collaborative backbone; participatory heuristic evaluation; preliminary project experience; large-scale project
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