Temporality in Medical Work: Time also Matters

CSCW has long been concerned with the distribution of activities in time and in space, but the problems of distributed work have often taken analytic and technical precedence. In this paper, we are interested in the issue of temporality in collaborative work. In particular, we want to examine how the temporal organization of action is experienced by those who are involved in it. To investigate this phenomenon, we conducted a field study of medical workers in a surgical intensive care unit. Through this study, we highlight the temporal organization of the work. In particular, we introduce and describe three temporal features

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Madhu C. Reddy, Paul Dourish, Wanda Pratt
• Keywords: Collaborative Work, CSCW 2006, Social Sciences, Surgical Intensive Care, Temporal Organization