Master-Background

Research perspective at COSTT

  • Motivation
    • More effective, high quality, medical care in hospitals
      • Patient trajectory important to optimize while retaining high quality
      • Coordination/cooperation issues affects patient trajectory
    • Alleviate coordination/cooperation issues in the medical domain
    • Awareness of work environment believed to be one mean
    • Awareness through information transparency
  • Case perspective
    • Communication of information to aid information transparency
      • Self-coordination is primary focus
      • Information need is not defined nor static -> transparency better than "guessing".
    • Information is "integrated";
      • Spatial (location, nearness, rooms, corridors etc) = in a physical world
      • Conceptual (schedules, relationships; collaboration on tasks, interests in patients/staff etc) = non-physical
    • Visualization one mean to communicate integrated information
    • Integrate conceptual models and cartography by;
      • Emphasize the physical properties of conceptual models in the visual presentation of the model.

Case

  • Perspective; one actor and his interests (i.e. related concepts) = the user
    • Surgeon at work in the hospital
  • Interests are deduced by relations in the information model
  • Information model;
    • Focus on tasks, patients and staff. And their relationships.
    • Location of each of the concepts is important for the user
    • Temporal nearness deduced by location may be the actual information need.
  • Instances - populated information model
    • Results from meeting 25. March
    • Need to include some complexity (i.e. stress-test the info.model.)
    • Need to be situated in a spatially complex environment (i.e. anisotropic and possibly actor-specific route graphs)



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