title: Cognitive design of a digital desk for the emergency room setting.
abstract: Digital desk technology has a still mainly unexplored potential to support the everyday work of collaborating clinicians. This paper presents ER Desk - a digital desk that was designed to specifically support a team of healthcare professionals working in an emergency room setting. The underlying design requirements were elicited in a comprehensive distributed cognition study of paper-based practices in an emergency room of a middle-sized Swedish hospital. We present the user interface and visualization requirements for digital desks for small clinical emergency room teams. Moreover, we discuss key design issues more generally with a focus on supporting team awareness, cognition, and collaborative routines of healthcare personnel working in clinical environments such as emergency rooms and intensive care units.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bang
authors.affiliation: SICS East Swedish ICT AB, Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prytz
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Jonas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rybing
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Toomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Timpka
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003071:Cognition; D016288:Computer Terminals; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003626:Data Display; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D057188:Workflow