TY - GEN
T1 - Application of sociometer badges in simulated health environments
T2 - 59th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2015
AU - Yu, Denny
AU - Blocker, Renaldo
AU - Hallbeck, Susan
AU - Sir, Mustafa
AU - Hellmich, Thomas
AU - Pasupathy, Kalyan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Workload experienced by health care workers continues to be a challenge to define and quantify. The purpose of the current study is to present descriptive data on the application of sociometers in an emergency care environment during simulated hand-off scenarios and discuss their potential and limitations for quantifying individual's workload in health care settings. Sociometer devices, worn by nine actors, collected body movement, interactions, and speech data during four simulated hand-off scenarios in the emergency department wards. Results found that sociometers distinguished body movement differences between sitting, standing, lying, and walking individuals. Interactions quantified by the devices were limited by obstructions, distance, and angles between the sociometer devices. The data collected by these devices show promise in providing human factors researchers a tool for quantifying the dynamic exposures experienced by health care workers over time.
AB - Workload experienced by health care workers continues to be a challenge to define and quantify. The purpose of the current study is to present descriptive data on the application of sociometers in an emergency care environment during simulated hand-off scenarios and discuss their potential and limitations for quantifying individual's workload in health care settings. Sociometer devices, worn by nine actors, collected body movement, interactions, and speech data during four simulated hand-off scenarios in the emergency department wards. Results found that sociometers distinguished body movement differences between sitting, standing, lying, and walking individuals. Interactions quantified by the devices were limited by obstructions, distance, and angles between the sociometer devices. The data collected by these devices show promise in providing human factors researchers a tool for quantifying the dynamic exposures experienced by health care workers over time.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931215591117
DO - 10.1177/1541931215591117
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84981736052
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 538
EP - 542
BT - 2015 International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2015
PB - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Inc.
Y2 - 26 October 2015 through 30 October 2015
ER -