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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 the current practices. |
| | 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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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. |
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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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< | First deliverable
Task 1: Project Outline and Research Protocol (due 11/1)
Each team will need to determine and describe in brief the following for a project outline:
- An existing collaborative work group setting (one to which team members do not belong)
- (Optionally) An existing NECTAR or other known CSCW technology
- Research objective(s)
- 3-5 focal points for the fieldwork (class exercise, 10/18)
- Method(s) for data collection (class material, 10/18)
- Research protocol for purposes of ethics approval
- Recruit participants so that field work can begin as soon as ethics approval is received
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> | Future work
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
Methods of data collection
Sherman and Ducky will observe the BC side of the conference, which meets in a doctor's office at Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
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 might be available to us, but might not. We will, with consent of the participants, 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 agreements in place already for the followup interviews, Kelly assures us that the doctors are cooperative and are extremely likely to grant followup interviews. |
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