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Morten Kyng is a researcher, author, ACM SIGCHI Academy member, and  ubiquitous computing professor at  Aarhaus University. He is also a Member of Board of Directors of Østjysk Innovation, the Managing Director for the Danish National Centre for IT Research and the Director of the Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, a research centre that studies the use of pervasive computer technologies to provide healthcare solutions.

Previously, Kyng served as the Director for Caretech Innovation, supporting information technology innovations for healthcare, and as the Director of It-vest - Networking Universities.

His current project at the Alexandra Institute is "Denmark - a Pioneer in Telemedicine", a collaboration of four Danish institutions (The Alexandra Institute, DELTA, Danish Technological Institute, and FORCE Technology) aiming to further develop healthcare using telemedicine, an underdeveloped area of  information technology  healthcare which enables patients to attend medical visits from home instead of going to a healthcare institution. It explores the concept of a telemedicine ecosystem which is a collection of open source code technologies and technical interfaces that enable interaction between healthcare information technology systems, simultaneously enhancing the interaction between business and software. He has also performed research on the requirements for a software-intensive ecosystem for telemedicine. He identifies security concerns and access control for healthcare professionals instead of citizens, as issues in today's telemedical healthcare services. Using healthcare virtual private networks to provide services that require large and complicated health standards causes a slowdown, and limiting access from citizens also limits access between initiatives between public and private health sectors. To provide more flexible healthcare technology development, the Net4Care project was created as an application-centric ecosystem for telemedicine where standards should be supported by reference implementations, the quality of open source services should be properly controlled, and access control should allow for both healthcare professionals and citizens.

Some of Kyng’s work focuses on the flaws and potential improvements of participatory design in today's healthcare information technology. His expertise reaches both the healthcare and business sectors of Denmark, specifically the community of Aarhaus. His work includes research on healthcare solutions using pervasive computing, the embedding and use of sensor technology in everyday life. In his research, he identifies the challenges of participatory design intended for private homes, particularly for senior citizens with chronic dizziness, as opposed to participatory design intended for workplaces. The four challenges are designing the home, participation of ill and weak users in participatory design, conflicting interests of the user, and find a usable and sustainable solution. He also identifies the challenges of designing interactive emergency response systems. One challenge is the dynamic environment of an emergency situation which makes it difficult for healthcare personnel to operate and collaborate while maintaining a clear situational overview. Another common challenge is the common use of face-to-face communication on-site emergencies since different different professional groups cannot communicate with each other by radio. He proposes these challenges to be mitigated by having each emergency response professional use a wireless device in which they can create a shared information space with data such as bio-sensor data, victim identification, and aerial photos. This device should ideally be usable outdoors and at night, varying in size to suit both multiple co-located and distributed users.