Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research: Visualising Interactions for Resilient Healthcare in the UK and Japan

Drawing on the concept ofresilient healthcare, this book explores multimodally embedded everyday practices of healthcare professionals in the UK and Japan, utilising novel technology, such as eye-tracking glasses, to inform what constitutes good practice.

Providing an interdisciplinary examination of the theories and rationales of resilient healthcare, the book engages with a range of case studies from a variety of healthcare settings in the UK and Japan and considers the application of advanced technologies for visualising healthcare interactions and implementing virtual healthcare simulation. In doing so, it showcases a number of multimodal approaches and highlights the potential benefits of multimodal and multidisciplinary approaches to healthcare communication research for enhancing resilience in their local contexts.

Keiko Tsuchiya is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies, Yokohama City University, Japan
Frank Coffey is Professor at the Department of Research and Education in Emergency Medicine at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Kyota Nakamura is Professor at the Department of Clinical Quality Management, Osaka University Hospital, Japan