Working With The Intensive Care Unit

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Working With The Intensive Care Unit

• Rachid Hourizi
• Human-Computer Interaction Group
• Department Of Computer Science
• University of Bath, UK

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Overview

• Introduction
• About Us (The HCI Group)
• Why Do We Want To Work With ICU?
• What We Have Done So Far?
• Whats Next?
• Conclusion

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About Us

• Our Group
• Psychologists And Computer Scientists
• Researches
• The Modeling, Development Assessment of
• Human Computer Systems and
• Systems Of Systems

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Our Work

• We Work On
• The Development of Human-Computer Systems
• Which Impact Upon Cross-Cutting Themes
• Collaboration, Awareness, Decision-Making, Trust
• In A Variety of Industries
• Transport, Defense, Telecoms, Public Services
• With A Range Of Partners
• E.g. Airbus, BAe, Qinetiq, Vodafone, Environ.
  Agency.

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Why ITU?

• Our Understanding of ICU
• Complex,
• System Of Systems
• RUH, Local Hospitals, ITU, Other Departments
• In Which Multiple Actors
• Patients, Medics
• Are Supported By Multiple Computers
• Imaging, Records, Communication
• As They Generate and Share Information/ Awareness
• Patient Records, Medical Imagery

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Why ITU?

• Work Within ICU Depends Upon
• Collaboration,
• Awareness,
• Decision-Making,
• Trust
• ( And Can Be Frustrating For Those Involved!)

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What Have We Done?

• We Have Therefore
• Established Contact
• Individual / Group
• Introduced The Work Undertaken In Each Group
• Informally, Formally
• Visited Each other
• Shadowing, Presentation

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Whats Next?

• And Are Now Ready To Narrow Our Focus
• Which Has Led Us To Agree A Small Number of
  Additional Steps
• Further (More Focused) Visits
• Selection Of A Specific Research Problem
• Pilot Study
• Full Proposal

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Conclusions

• In Conclusion,
• Collaboration With ITU Started Differently From
  Many Others
• But The Work Undertaken Within ITU Domain Shares
  Characteristics With Others We Have Studied
• Giving Us The Potential To Contribute
• Working Towards Specific Contribution
• Has taken time
• But will bear fruit

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Questions?

• questions?

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End

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