Hospital user research using new media arts
Cecily P Morrison, Alan F. Blackwell · 2009
This paper presents a comparative analysis of group interaction around two display types, shared and individual, using a ‘new media ’ arts application as a way to explore the physical technology setup for an intensive care unit in a hospital. We propose this method for laboratory settings when the research questions derive from socially complex environments, but realworld interventions are not possible. While users solve an ‘interaction problem ’ that is posed through the ‘new media ’ arts application for their own expressive purposes, researchers can analyse and collate the results to understand the solution space. We present a study with the bodyPaint application to address a design issue that we discovered when assessing the merits of an electronic patient record system.