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Understanding Personal Protective Equipment Use in Interdisciplinary Medical Settings: Design Explorations for Just-in-Time Compliance Alerts: Improving PPE Practices in Medical Settings Through Alert Design
DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp 3473-3489
04 Jul 2025
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Abstract
We examine the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in two interdisciplinary medical settings to inform the design of just-in-time alerts and reminders for correcting PPE noncompliance. We reviewed videos of 26 pediatric resuscitations occurring over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic at an urban pediatric teaching hospital. Through video review, we identified causes for PPE noncompliance, activities that were frequently performed without PPE, instances in which PPE was intentionally removed, and mechanisms by which healthcare providers corrected PPE noncompliance. We also interviewed 18 registered nurses working in the hospital's emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU) to better understand observed PPE behaviors and practices. Our results suggest that alert design will require considering the urgency of correcting PPE noncompliance against the urgency of tasks being performed. We discuss our findings through the lens of the COM-B framework and conclude by exploring design opportunities for just-in-time alerts and reminders for prompting PPE noncompliance corrections in dynamic medical work.
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- Title
- Understanding Personal Protective Equipment Use in Interdisciplinary Medical Settings: Design Explorations for Just-in-Time Compliance Alerts: Improving PPE Practices in Medical Settings Through Alert Design
- Creators
- Aleksandra Sarcevic (Corresponding Author) - Drexel University, Information ScienceEleanor A. Wood - Drexel UniversityKatherine Ann Zellner - Drexel UniversityChristine Dodeye Ikponmwonba - Drexel UniversityMary Suhyun KimIvan Marsic - Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyRandall S Burd - Children's National
- Publication Details
- DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp 3473-3489
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- Drexel UniversityNational Institutes of Health (NIH)National Institutes of Health: 5R01EB032819-02
We thank our collaborators and medical staff at Children's National Hospital for supporting this research and participating in interviews. We also thank Vidhi Shah for translating our design ideas into storyboards and Jonah Koppel for supporting data collection and analysis, both from Drexel University. This research is the result of funding in whole or in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy. Through acceptance of this federal funding, NIH has been given a right to make this manuscript publicly available in PubMed Central upon the Official Date of Publication, as defined by NIH. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health award number 5R01EB032819-02.
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science; College of Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001555741000207
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105020668984
- Other Identifier
- 991022063542404721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Cybernetics
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Computer Science, Theory & Methods
- Ergonomics