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Designing the safety of healthcare. Participation of ergonomics to the design of cooperative systems in radiotherapy

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This communication deals with the involvement of ergonomists in a research-action design process of a software platform in radiotherapy. The goal of the design pro-ject is to enhance patient safety by designing a workflow software that supports cooperation between professionals producing treatment in radiotherapy. The general framework of our approach is the ergonomics management of a design process, which is based in activity analysis and grounded in participatory design. Two fields are concerned by the present action: a design environment which is a participatory design process that involves software designers, caregivers as future users and ergonomists; and a reference real work setting in radiotherapy. Observations, semi-structured interviews and participatory workshops allow the characterization of activity in radiotherapy dealing with uses of cooperative tools, sources of variability and non-ruled strategies to manage the variability of the situations. This production of knowledge about work searches to enhance the articulation between technocentric and anthropocentric approaches, and helps in clarifying design requirements. An issue of this research-action is to develop a framework to define the parameters of the workflow tool, and the conditions of its deployment.
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halshs-00756293 , version 1 (22-11-2012)

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Maria Isabel Munoz, Nadia Bouldi, Flore Barcellini, Adelaide Nascimento. Designing the safety of healthcare. Participation of ergonomics to the design of cooperative systems in radiotherapy. WORK, 2012, 41, pp.790-796. ⟨10.3233/WOR-2012-0242-790⟩. ⟨halshs-00756293⟩
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