Medical cognitive graphics

Authors:
W. G. Cole
Affiliations:
Section on Medical Information Science, University of California, San Francisco
Venue:
CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
1986

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Abstract

Medical inference problems that seem too complex for intuitive solution can be made tractable if the problem information is presented in the form of a graphic display. The medical cognitive graphics approach to aiding complex problem solving conceives of a medical professional as a person trying to form a mental model of the patient's situation. Appropriate computer graphics make mental models easier to form and easier to explore. This paper develops the notion of medical cognitive graphics via two examples drawn from medical diagnosis and monitoring.