Hospital user research using new media arts

This paper presents a comparative analysis of group interaction around two display types, shared and individual, using a `new media' arts application as a way to explore the physical technology setup for an intensive care unit in a hospital. We propose this method for laboratory settings when the research questions derive from socially complex environments, but realworld interventions are not possible. While users solve an `interaction problem' that is posed through the `new media' arts application for their own expressive purposes, researchers can analyse and collate the results to understand the solution space. We present a study with the bodyPaint application to address a design issue that we discovered when assessing the merits of an electronic patient record system. Author Keywords Intensive Care, Mobile Devices, New Media Arts ACM Classification Keywords

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: BCSHCI
• Authors: Cecily Morrison, Alan F. Blackwell
• Keywords: Arts Application, BCSHCI 2007, BCSHCI 2009, Intensive Care, Intensive Care Unit