Activities

The role of the evaluation team is to contribute to the PERSIVAL project in areas related to medical cognition, human-computer interaction and analysis of user needs.

The McGill group has been involved in the following activities:

• participated in initial planning meetings to identify areas to apply cognitive methods and identify strategic directions for the project
• developed study designs to be employed in the evaluation of information extraction and summarization components
• worked on development and refinement of case scenarios (describing real patient cases) to be used in testing of DLI2 components
• conducted study of information retrieval (with residents and attending physicians as subjects) for testing and feedback into design of summarization component
• conducted study involving data collection and analysis of questions asked during medical rounds - identified potential implications of this as basis for design of DLI2 computer-based components
• presented work to date and findings (involving the McGill group) to the DLI2 group at Columbia in New York
• conducted pilot study examining application of usability testing for evaluation of Web-based health classification schemes
• explored potential application of cognitive methods to the analysis of user needs regarding visual components of DLI2 (i.e. echograms)