The effect of verbal instructions while using digital indoor wayfinding devices on gender, performance, and self-reported strategies.

Studies indicate that verbal instructions may impact associations between gender and wayfinding performance (measured via relative direction pointing accuracy and walking pace). Following the increasing use of digital navigation applications in indoor environments, and their implications on acquiring and processing spatial information, the aim of this study is to evaluate the stability of previously established associations. The study included 34 participants (16 females) aged 24-34 and was conducted in an indoor hospital setting.

Information Chaos: An Adapted Framework Describing Citizens' Experiences with Information During COVID-19.

With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, clinicians, public officials, and citizens alike struggled to stay abreast of the constant and evolving stream of information about the clinical manifestations of illness, epidemiology of the disease, and the public health response. In this paper, we adapted (i.e.

"Vaccine Passports" May Backfire: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study in the UK and Israel on Willingness to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19.

Domestic "vaccine passports" are being implemented across the world as a way of increasing vaccinated people's freedom of movement and to encourage vaccination. However, these vaccine passports may affect people's vaccination decisions in unintended and undesirable ways. This cross-sectional study investigated whether people's willingness and motivation to get vaccinated relate to their psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness), and how vaccine passports might affect these needs.

Design and Test of a Graphic Medication Dosage Calculator in Paramedic Practice With Children.

Background: Children are more vulnerable to medication errors during prehospital care because of paramedic staff having less experience with pediatric patients. One of the possible solutions to this problem is the use of technologies as cognitive aids to medication dosage calculation.

Objective: Design and empirically test a graphic dosage calculator tailored for pediatric medication calculation in prehospital emergency care.

Human Factor Considerations in Using Personal Protective Equipment in the COVID-19 Pandemic Context: Binational Survey Study.

Background: Full level 1 personal protective equipment (PPE) is used in various domains and contexts. Prior research has shown influences of such equipment on performance, comfort, and contamination levels. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic forced a pervasive requirement of PPE, with little preparation, rushed deployment, inadequate time for training, and massive use by personnel who are inexperienced or not qualified in its effective use.

A Patient-Centered Information System (myED) for Emergency Care Journeys: Design, Development, and Initial Adoption.

Background: Medical care is highly complex in that it addresses patient-centered health goals that require the coordination of multiple care providers. Emergency department (ED) patients currently lack a sense of predictability about ED procedures. This increases frustration and aggression.

An Efficient Single-session Spatial Skill Trainer for Robot-assisted Surgery: A Randomized Trial.

Study Objective: To introduce and examine a single session of spatial skill training as an efficient means of improving surgical suturing performance in robot-assisted surgery.

Design: A randomized, controlled trial.

Setting: A tertiary university medical center in Israel.

Designing Health Information for Mutual Empowerment in the Joint Journey of Patients and Healthcare Professionals.

The practice of patient-centric empowerment with health information delivered through various channels is widespread and often effective. While empowering patients improves the sharing of power between patients and healthcare professionals, it can also inadvertently disempowers healthcare professionals. This paper proposes an approach to the design of health information with the aim of mutually empowering patients and healthcare professionals.

Healthcare providers' perceptions of a situational awareness display for emergency department resuscitation: a simulation qualitative study.

Importance: Emergency resuscitation of critically ill patients can challenge team communication and situational awareness. Tools facilitating team performance may enhance patient safety.

Objectives: To determine resuscitation team members' perceptions of the Situational Awareness Display's utility.

Team communication patterns in emergency resuscitation: a mixed methods qualitative analysis.

Background: In order to enhance patient safety during resuscitation of critically ill patients, we need to optimize team communication and enhance team situational awareness but little is known about resuscitation team communication patterns. The objective of this study is to understand how teams communicate during resuscitation; specifically to assess for a shared mental model (organized understanding of a team's relationships) and information needs.

Methods: We triangulated 3 methods to evaluate resuscitation team communication at a tertiary care academic trauma center: (1) interviews; (2) simulated resuscitation observations; (3) live resuscitation observations.

The use of mobile technology in waiting rooms to leverage women's empowerment: A conceptual context.

This article focuses on a conceptual framework that can be applied to the use of mobile technology in the waiting room with the goal of empowering women recently diagnosed with abnormal Pap test results. It further describes trends which indicate a need for improved and timely information dissemination. Genecology practice outpatients report a predominant feeling of worry on receipt of abnormal medical test results, along with a clearly expressed wish for additional information.

Mapping communication spaces: The development and use of a tool for analyzing the impact of EHRs on interprofessional collaborative practice.

Introduction: Members of the healthcare team must access and share patient information to coordinate interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP). Although some evidence suggests that electronic health records (EHRs) contribute to in-team communication breakdowns, EHRs are still widely hailed as tools that support ICP. If EHRs are expected to promote ICP, researchers must be able to longitudinally study the impact of EHRs on ICP across communication types, users, and physical locations.

The EHR and building the patient's story: A qualitative investigation of how EHR use obstructs a vital clinical activity.

Background: Recent research has suggested that using electronic health records (EHRs) can negatively impact clinical reasoning (CR) and interprofessional collaborative practices (ICPs). Understanding the benefits and obstacles that EHR use introduces into clinical activities is essential for improving medical documentation, while also supporting CR and ICP.

Methods: This qualitative study was a longitudinal pre/post investigation of the impact of EHR implementation on CR and ICP at a large pediatric hospital.

The impact of adopting EHRs: how losing connectivity affects clinical reasoning.

Context: As electronic health records (EHRs) are adopted by teaching hospitals, educators must examine how this change impacts trainee development.

Objectives: We investigate this influence by studying clinician experiences of a hospital's move from paper charts to an EHR. We ask: how does each chart modality present conceptions of time and data interconnections? How do these conceptions affect clinical reasoning?

Methods: This two-phase, longitudinal study employed constructivist grounded theory.

Transferring patient care: patterns of synchronous bidisciplinary communication between physicians and nurses during handoffs in a critical care unit.

Purpose: The transfer of patient care from one health care worker to another involves communication in high-pressure contexts that are often vulnerable to error. This research project captured current practices for handoffs during the critical care stage of surgical recovery in a hospital setting. The objective was to characterize information flow during transfer and identify patterns of communication between nurses and physicians.

Information structure and organisation in change of shift reports: An observational study of nursing hand-offs in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Patient hand-offs involve the exchange of critical information. Ineffective hand-offs can result in reduced patient safety by leading to wrong treatment, delayed diagnoses or other outcomes that can negatively affect the healthcare system. The objectives of this study were to uncover the structure of the information conveyed during patient hand-offs and look for principles characterising the organisation of the information.

Additivity in perception of affect from limb motion.

In this study, the notion of additivity in perception of affect from limb motion is investigated. Specifically, we examine whether the impact of multiple limbs in perception of affect is equal to the sum of the impacts of each individual limb. Several neutral, happy, and sad walking sequences are first aligned and averaged.

Communication and team situation awareness in the OR: Implications for augmentative information display.

Team Situation Awareness (TSA) is one of the critical factors in effective Operating Room (OR) teamwork and can impact patient safety and quality of care. While previous research showed a relationship between situation awareness, as measured by communication events, and team performance, the implications for developing technology to augment and facilitate TSA were not examined. This research aims to further study situation-related communications in the cardiac OR in order to uncover potential degradation in TSA which may lead to adverse events.

The impact of night vision goggles on way-finding performance and the acquisition of spatial knowledge.

Objective: This study examined the effects of night vision goggles (NVGs) on navigation and way-finding performance and the acquisition of spatial knowledge.

Background: Although numerous studies have examined the effects of NVGs on visual perception, few have examined the effects of using NVGs on the acquisition and expression of spatial cognition.

Method: Participants learned the environment through active navigation and way finding, searching for targets within a life-sized maze with or without NVGs.

Speech-based interaction in multitask conditions: impact of prompt modality.

Speech-based interaction is often recognized as appropriate for hands-busy, eyes-busy multitask situations. The objective of this study was to explore prompt-guided speech-based interaction and the impact of prompt modality on overall performance in such situations. A dual-task paradigm was employed, with tracking as a primary task and speech-based data input as a secondary task.

The impact of visual layout factors on performance in Web pages: a cross-language study.

Visual layout has a strong impact on performance and is a critical factor in the design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and Web pages. Many design guidelines employed in Web page design were inherited from human performance literature and GUI design studies and practices. However, few studies have investigated the more specific patterns of performance with Web pages that may reflect some differences between Web page and GUI design.

Easy first steps and their implication to the use of a mouse-based and a script-based strategy.

The present study evaluated the convention to design training environments by giving access to easy strategies first and progressing to more difficult and efficient strategies thereafter. An experiment was conducted focusing on training in a simplified editing task. This task could be performed with an easy (mouse-based) strategy as well as with a more efficient (script-based) strategy.