Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research

Drawing on the concept of<i></i>resilient 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.<br/><br/>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.