title: Sketching Awareness: A Participatory Study to Elicit Designs for SupportingAd HocEmergency Medical Teamwork.
abstract: Prior CSCW research onawareness in clinical settingshas mostly focused on higher-level team coordination spanning across longer-term trajectories at the department and inter-department levels. In this paper, we offer a perspective on what awareness means within the context of anad hoc, time- and safety-critical medical setting by looking at teams treating severely ill patients with urgent needs. We report findings from four participatory design workshops conducted with emergency medicine clinicians at two regional emergency departments. Workshops were developed to elicit design ideas for information displays that support awareness in emergency medical situations. Through analysis of discussions and clinicians' sketches of information displays, we identified five features of teamwork that can be used as a foundation for supporting awareness from the perspective of clinicians. Based on these findings, we contribute rich descriptions of four facets of awareness that teams manage during emergency medical situations:team member awareness,elapsed time awareness,teamwork-oriented and patient-driven task awareness, andoverall progress awareness. We then discuss these four awareness types in relation to awareness facets found in the CSCW literature.
authors: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University.
authors: Diana
authors: D
authors: Kusunoki
authors: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University.
authors: Aleksandra
authors: A
authors: Sarcevic
authors: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University.
authors: Zhan
authors: Z
authors: Zhang
authors: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University.
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Yala
keywords: Awareness; collocated teams; emergency medicine; information displays; participatory design; work coordination