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View article: Transitioning to Remote User-Centered Design Activities in the Emergency Medical Field During a Pandemic
Transitioning to Remote User-Centered Design Activities in the Emergency Medical Field During a Pandemic Open
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to transition our user-centered research and design activities in the emergency medical domain of trauma resuscitation from in-person settings to online environments. This transition required that we re…
View article: Towards an Adaptive, Context-aware Checklist for Concurrent Use in Dynamic Medical Settings
Towards an Adaptive, Context-aware Checklist for Concurrent Use in Dynamic Medical Settings Open
Checklists have been created to assist with the performance of sequential tasks, thereby reducing human errors and improving communication and collaboration. Although paper-based checklists have improved safety in aviation and healthcare, …
View article: Understanding Digital Checklist Use Through Team Communication
Understanding Digital Checklist Use Through Team Communication Open
Introducing technology support in a complex, team-based work setting requires a study of teamwork effects on technology use. In this paper, we present our initial analysis of team communications in a trauma resuscitation setting, where we …
View article: Checklist Design Reconsidered: Understanding Checklist Compliance and Timing of Interactions
Checklist Design Reconsidered: Understanding Checklist Compliance and Timing of Interactions Open
We examine the association between user interactions with a checklist and task performance in a time-critical medical setting. By comparing 98 logs from a digital checklist for trauma resuscitation with activity logs generated by video rev…
View article: Envisioning a Shared Checklist Display to Support Teamwork During Emergency Medical Care
Envisioning a Shared Checklist Display to Support Teamwork During Emergency Medical Care Open
Information technology and systems in healthcare are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic, requiring design approaches that consider not only providers’ information needs and work practices, but also their perceptions and expectations…
View article: Comparing the Effects of Paper and Digital Checklists on Team Performance in Time-Critical Work
Comparing the Effects of Paper and Digital Checklists on Team Performance in Time-Critical Work Open
This mixed-methods study examines the effects of a tablet-based checklist system on team performance during a dynamic and safety-critical process of trauma resuscitation. We compared team performance from 47 resuscitations that used a pape…
View article: Design In The “Medical” Wild
Design In The “Medical” Wild Open
We describe the challenges of deploying a digital checklist for medical emergencies during an in-the-wild design and evaluation study. The in-the-wild approach allowed for many design iterations to meet the requirements of a safety-critica…
View article: Designing and Optimizing Digital Applications for Medical Emergencies
Designing and Optimizing Digital Applications for Medical Emergencies Open
In this ongoing study, we aim to redesign an existing dynamic digital checklist application (app) for trauma resuscitations in a regional trauma center. The design followed an iterative, user-centered approach. Trauma team physician leader…
View article: Exploring Design Opportunities for a Context-Adaptive Medical Checklist Through Technology Probe Approach
Exploring Design Opportunities for a Context-Adaptive Medical Checklist Through Technology Probe Approach Open
This paper explores the workflow and use of an interactive medical checklist for trauma resuscitation-an emerging technology developed for trauma team leaders to support decision making and task coordination among team members. We used a t…
View article: Design In The Wild
Design In The Wild Open
We describe a pilot study of designing and evaluating a digital checklist for medical emergencies based on participation of medical-expert researchers who used the checklist during actual trauma resuscitations. The participation of the res…
View article: Design Challenges in Converting a Paper Checklist to Digital Format for Dynamic Medical Settings
Design Challenges in Converting a Paper Checklist to Digital Format for Dynamic Medical Settings Open
We describe a mobile digital checklist that we designed and developed for trauma resuscitation-a dynamic, fast-paced medical process of treating severely injured patients. The checklist design was informed by our analysis of user interacti…