Abstract
Hospital workers need information to decide on the appropriate course of action for patient care; this information could be obtained from artifacts -such as medical records and lab results- or as a result of interactions with others. However, these exchanges could be a source of medical errors since this information is not usually preserved and could be lost –totally or partially- due to the volatility of human memory. This happens due to the verbal nature of the interaction or due to the lack of an infrastructure that facilitates the capture of information even when hospital workers are on the move. The capabilities increasingly found in Smartphones, such as WiFi, touch screen or a D-pad (directed pad), built-in camera, accelerometers, contact management software, among others, make it feasible to record significant information about the interactions that take place in the hospital and seamlessly retrieve it to support work activities. Thus, in this paper we propose a system to capture and manage collaboration outcomes in hospitals through the implementation of mobile collaboration spheres in Smartphones.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Camacho, J., Favela, J., González, V.M.: Supporting the Management of Multiple Activities in Mobile Collaborative Working Environments. In: Dimitriadis, Y.A., Zigurs, I., Gómez-Sánchez, E. (eds.) CRIWG 2006. LNCS, vol. 4154, pp. 381–388. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Castro, L.A., Favela, J.: Contiuous Tracking of User Location in WLANs Using Recurrent Neural Networks. In: Proceedings of Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, Puebla, Mexico, pp. 174–181. IEEE Press, Los Alamitos (2005)
Coiera, E.: Clinical Communication - A New Informatics Paradigm. In: Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC, pp. 17–21. J. Am. Med. Informatics Assoc. (1996)
González, V.M., Mark, G.: Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness: managing multiple working spheres. In: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, pp. 113–120. ACM Press, New York (2004)
Górriz, J.M., Ramírez, J., Segura, J.C., Hornillo, S.: Voice Activity Detection Using Higher Order Statistics. In: Cabestany, J., Prieto, A.G., Sandoval, F. (eds.) IWANN 2005. LNCS, vol. 3512, pp. 837–844. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Hansen, T.R., Bardram, J.E.: ActiveTheatre – a Collaborative, Event-based Capture and Access System for the Operating Theatre. In: Beigl, M., Intille, S.S., Rekimoto, J., Tokuda, H. (eds.) UbiComp 2005. LNCS, vol. 3660, pp. 375–392. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Isaacs, E., Whittaker, S., Frohlich, D., O’Conaill, B.: Informal communication re-examined: New functions for video in supporting opportunistic encounters. In: Finn, K.E., Sellen, A.J., Wilbur, S.B. (eds.) Video-Mediated Communication, pp. 459–485. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah (1997)
Kohn, L.T., Corrigan, J.M., Donaldson, M.S. (eds.): To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Kraut, R., Fish, R., Root, R., Chalfonte, B.: Informal communication in organizations: form, function and technology. In: The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, California, United States, pp. 145–199. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks (1990)
Mejia, D.A., Morán, A.L., Favela, J.: Supporting Informal Co-located Collaboration in Hospital Work. In: Haake, J.M., Ochoa, S.F., Cechich, A. (eds.) CRIWG 2007. LNCS, vol. 4715, pp. 255–270. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Morán, E.B., Tentori, M., Gonzalez, V.M., Favela, J., Martínez-Garcia, A.I.: Mobility in Hospital Work: Towards a Pervasive Computing Hospital Environment. International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (IJEH) 3(1), 72–89
Pedersen, E.R., McCall, K., Moran, T.P., Halasz, F.G.: Tivoli: an electronic whiteboard for informal workgroup meetings. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 391–398. ACM Press, New York (1993)
Tentori, M., Favela, J., Rodríguez, M.D.: Privacy-Aware Autonomous Agents for Pervasive Healthcare. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(6), 55–62 (2006)
Tentori, M., Favela, J., González, V.M.: Quality of Privacy (QoP) for the Design of Ubiquitous Healthcare Applications. J. UCS 12(3), 252–269 (2006)
Voida, S., Mynatt, E.D., MacIntyre, B., Corso, G.M.: Integrating virtual and physical context to support knowledge workers. IEEE Pervasive Computing 1(3), 73–79
Waibel, A., Schultz, T., Bett, M., Denecke, M., Malkin, R., Rogina, I., Stiefelhagen, R., Yang, J.: SMaRT: the Smart Meeting Room Task at ISL. In: Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 752–755. IEEE, Los Alamitos (2003)
Whittaker, S., Swanson, G., Kucan, J., Sidner, C.: Telenotes: managing lightweight interactions in the desktop. ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction 4, 137–168
Yeh, R.B., Klemmer, S.R.: Guimbretière, ButterflyNet: Mobile Capture and Access for Biologists. In: Conference Supplement to UIST 2005: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Seattle, WA, p. 20 (2005)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Mejía, D.A., Favela, J., Morán, A.L. (2009). Preserving Interaction Threads through the Use of Smartphones in Hospitals. In: Carriço, L., Baloian, N., Fonseca, B. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5784. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04216-4_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04216-4_2
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-04215-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-04216-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)