"It's like a circus in here!": affect and information sharing in an emergency department

The following research begins to address the relationship between affect and information sharing in order to inform the design of collaborative systems. Through ethnographic observations of affect and faceto-face information sharing in an emergency department we begin to see trends on the occurrence of affect due to context as well as the relationship between affect and information sharing outcomes. Keywords Emotion, information sharing, collaboration ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Helena M. Mentis, Mary Beth Rosson
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Faceto-face Information Sharing, Human Computer Interaction, Information Sharing, Information Sharing Outcomes