Fall:
One skill I am good at and currently using for this internship is teamwork. The way I have been using teamwork in my internship is when I am doing a specific task such as calling hospital, asking them a question, and getting no response other people from the internship will call the hospital and try to get the information. Another example is when we are doing research and there is a issues we all discuss about the issues that is happening and try to come up with a solution to fix the issues.
One goal that I gained from this internship was being able to ask questions when I was doing research. I gained this when I was calling various hospitals and was not getting the answers I need for this research. I then asked my supervisors about how to overcome these challenges and after discussing some ways we were able to figure out a different approach to ask the question.
Spring:
So far in this internship I have gain a lot of different skills I would say a skill that I have learned and used a lot would be confronting challenges and failure. I learn that research is not perfect and things do not go as expected which is okay and normal. During the fall I had to call hospital and ask them question. We had a lot of meetings trying to figure out ways to get the answer we needed. But unfortunately we had to stop this research because we could not figure out a way to fix this issues because majority of the hospital would not answer the question. But that lead us to a different type of research.
Fall:
One skill that I would like to continue to improve is my communication skills. The way I will improve my communication skills is by calling different hospital and asking them the question to get the answer. In addition by continuing to do other research about different app and writing a paper about what I have found out when doing the research.
The second goal that I gained from this internship was gaining knowledge and experience level when it comes to the interaction of HCI and healthcare. The way I gained this was when my team was trying to figure out the usability of hospitals using pagers or HIPAA text messaging tools.
Spring:
One skills that I would like to continue to improve on is integration and application. The way I will improve on this skill is by using the examples given to me to help with write the paper that will be publish in the future. Plus being able to also use example to help create the presentation I will use for the showcase.
The way I continue to build my strength in this internship is by trying to communicate with others about what I have done and issues that I am having. In this internship I have learned that research is not perfect and there is going to be issues that may occur. Working with others can help figure out solutions to help with the issues. Also be open-mind with ideas that other have because they could work in the future.