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Coordinationin High-Velocity Environment |
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Coordination in High-Velocity Environment Introduction |
What are the coordination processes used by distributed expertise
teams operating in high-velocity work domains such as trauma patient
resuscitation? Answers to the question can guide us in developing
computation and communication technology to improve coordination. A
key objective of the project is to understand the coordination processes used by the high-velocity professional work teams (i.e., a trauma resuscitation team), among themselves
and with other people (e.g., paramedic, OR nurse, Radiologist, etc.) related to their tasks, in a trauma center.
Our research on coordination is conducted by an interdisciplinary teams with wide-ranging research background and experience: team performance, information technologies, medicine, nursing, health care informatics, management sciences, biomedical engineering and ethnography. Qualitative and quantitative methods including ethnographic studies, surveys and interviews are used to capture coordination processes in situ in trauma center settings. Our projects aim at a better understanding of the role of various communication media and how each medium is used in dynamic work settings to achieve work coordination and to maintain adequate awareness. Also, this project will provide opportunity to develop interdisciplinary research project and to train several graduate students to conduct a research project utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods. The research effort described here have received research support from National Science Foundation (IIS-9900406 and ITR-0081868) and Nortel Networks. |
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