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+ Ducky and Sherman's CSCW Project 3: Spinal Rounds 
Sherman and Ducky will observe a videoconference of Canadian orthopedic surgeons, and interview two or three of the participants at a later date.  Our goal in this fieldwork is identify limitations in and strengths of the current practices.
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+ About the conference 
This videoconference, called "Spinal Rounds", is designed to be similar to the daily rounds that doctors, residents, and interns make on a daily basis: a group of doctors gets together and discusses cases.  Unlike normal rounds, which are done in the patients' rooms, doctors from all over Canada meet and discuss via telepresence software.
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What we will call the "Squares" project involves doctors in a particular, narrow subspecialty who are located at different locations across Canada.  There are very few doctors in this subspecialty -- on the order of ten in all of Canada.  This means that doctors in this subspecialty worked in large part "in a vaccuum", ignorant of the history of similar cases that might have cropped up elsewhere.
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+Doctors really only communicated with their subscpecialty peers twice a year, at large conferences in their larger specialty area.
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Our objective will be to report on how the Spinal Rounds group interacts with technology: what problems arise from their use of technology and what things work well; to gain an understanding of the goals of the group in order to assess the effectiveness of the group's current practices and the appropriateness of the current technology.
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+In 2003@@@, this group started meeting regularly via computer conference several times per year in order to discuss interesting -- usually difficult -- cases.
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 How does the speaker indicate to others what visual artifact he/she is referring to?
  How do the participants manage turn-taking?
  How does the physical layout affect the collaboration?
  How do status levels affect the collaboration?
  How do they manage screen real estate?
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Kelly has futher ideas for things that are outside the scope of the project, but which would be nice.  In addition to simply strengthening the relationship between UBC-CS and the Children's Hospital, he would be pleased if we could: 
 present recommendations to the Childrens' Hospital with our findings
  turn our class report into a tech report
  lay the groundwork for a future thesis or dissertation
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Sherman and Ducky will observe the BC side of the conference, which meets in a doctor's office at Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
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+This observation will take place on Friday, 4 November, and include observing setup and teardown of the teleconference equipment as well as the actual Spinal Rounds meeting.  The Spinal Rounds meeting itself will probably last over an hour.

Based on information from Kelly's previous observations, we expect that three to five doctors/staff will be at the Children's Hospital site.

Sherman and Ducky will take written notes but will not record the audio or video.  A video archive of the session may or may not be available to us.  All aspects of patient confidentiality will be adhered to via telepresence, and will be further followed through via Sherman and Ducky’s observations.  With consent of the participants, Sherman and Ducky will take a few flashless photos with Ducky's digital camera.

We plan to do two or three short (15-30 minute) followup interviews.


 Research protocol 
We will focus on the local participants.  We will be covered as collaborators under the UBC ethics guidelines, building upon Kelly's existing history of collaboration with the Children's Hospital doctors.  (Being doctors, these participants are also very familiar with consent and privacy issues.) 

While we do not have followup interviews arranged and/or scheduled, Kelly assures us that the doctors are cooperative and are extremely likely to grant followup interviews.

 

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