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Rebecca Randell
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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Open AccessEmbedding robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication and decision making: a review of the experience of surgical teams
While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots because of anticipated improvements in patient outcomes, their implementation into practice is highly variable. In robotic surg...
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Open AccessStrategies for conducting situated studies of technology use in hospitals
Ethnographic methods are widely used for understanding situated practices with technology. When authors present their data gathering methods, they almost invariably focus on the bare essentials. These enable t...
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Diagnosis at the microscope: a workplace study of histopathology
Histopathologists diagnose cancer and other diseases by using a microscope to examine glass slides containing thin sections of human tissue. Technological advances mean that it is now possible to digitise the ...
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Variations and Commonalities in Processes of Collaboration: The Need for Multi-Site Workplace Studies
Workplace studies have made a major contribution to the field of CSCW, drawing attention to subtle practices that enable effective collaboration. However, workplace studies typically focus on a single setting,...
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Beyond handover: supporting awareness for continuous coverage
Hospitals are required to operate as a continuous system because patient care cannot be temporarily suspended and handover is seen as a key method for enabling this. This paper reports a study of handover in a...
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Building a Context Sensitive Telephone: Some Hopes and Pitfalls for Context Sensitive Computing
Although the idea of making technology more context aware is an alluring one, this seemingly simple move hides a great deal of complexity. Even simple examples such as a context sensitive mobile phone which kn...
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User customisation of medical devices: the reality and the possibilities
While studies of office environments have treated the customisation of technology by users as a positive response to the situated nature of work, customisation of devices in the medical domain, and other safet...
