Medical operating documents: dynamic checklists improve crisis attention

  • Authors:
  • Leslie Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

  • Venue:
  • Adjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The attentional aspects of crisis computing - supporting highly trained teams as they respond to real-life emergencies - have been underexplored in the user interface community. My research investigates the development of interactive software systems that support crisis teams, with an eye towards intelligently managing attention. In this paper, I briefly describe MDOCS, a Medical operating DOCuments System built for time-critical interaction. MDOCS is a multi-user, multi-surface software system that implements dynamic checklists and interactive cognitive aids written to support medical crisis teams. I present the results of a study that evaluates the deployment of MDOCS in a realistic, mannequin-based medical simulator used by anesthesiologists. I propose controlled laboratory experiments that evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of our design principles and attentional interaction techniques.