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LDIM
an Instant Messenger for Large Shared Displays
| when | apr 04 - jul 04 | |
| where | cicese research center | |
| why | course project | |
| who else | luis castro | |
| mgmt | jesús favela and victor gonzalez | |
| pubs | mu3i 2005 | |
| video | ldim.mpg |
Groupware systems on large displays are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the workplace.
Hospitals are complex information-rich environments that include a significant technical and computational infrastructure; the need for coordination and collaboration among specialists with different areas of expertise; an intense information exchange; and the mobility of hospital staff, patients, documents and equipment. This makes them ideal application environments for pervasive or ubiquitous computing technology.
In our work we aimed to evaluate in a cost-effective way the core characteristics of an ubicomp environment that integrates interactive public displays and PDAs with context-aware hospital applications.
The study was conducted at IMSS General Hospital in Ensenada, Mexico. The subjects of study were 35 people, 24 were residents and the rest of them were doctors. We evaluated the acceptance and use of technology through video scenarios, which were designed as a result of a three months case of study in the same hospital. Three scenarios, showing real working situations augmented with ubicomp were produced and two of them used in the of clinical test. They all agreed that these are actual problems they face everyday and are not adequately addressed by current technologies.