CLINICAL SURFACES --- Activity-Based Computing for Distributed Multi-Display Environments in Hospitals

  • Authors:

  • Jakob E. Bardram;Jonathan Bunde-Pedersen;Afsaneh Doryab;Steffen Sørensen

  • Affiliations:

  • IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark DK-2300;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark DK-2300;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark DK-2300;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark DK-2300

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A multi-display environment (MDE) is made up of co-located and networked personal and public devices that form an integrated workspace enabling co-located group work. Traditionally, MDEs have, however, mainly been designed to support a single "smart room", and have had little sense of the tasks and activities that the MDE is being used for. This paper presents a novel approach to support activity-based computing in distributed MDEs, where displays are physically distributed across a large building. CLINICAL SURFACES was designed for clinical work in hospitals, and enables context-sensitive retrieval and browsing of patient data on public displays. We present the design and implementation of CLINICAL SURFACES, and report from an evaluation of the system at a large hospital. The evaluation shows that using distributed public displays to support activity-based computing inside a hospital is very useful for clinical work, and that the apparent contradiction between maintaining privacy of medical data in a public display environment can be mitigated by the use of CLINICAL SURFACES.