Print Email Facebook Twitter Customizing ICU patient monitoring Title Customizing ICU patient monitoring: a user-centered approach informed by nurse profiles Author Bostan, I. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics; Erasmus MC) van Egmond, R. (TU Delft Human Information Communication Design) Gommers, D.A.M.P.J. (Erasmus MC) Ozcan Vieira, E. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics; Erasmus MC) Date 2024 Abstract Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses are burdened by excessive number of false and irrelevant alarms generated by patient monitoring systems. Nurses rely on these patient monitoring systems for timely and relevant medical information concerning patients. However, the systems currently in place are not sensitive to the perceptual and cognitive abilities of nurses and thus fail to communicate information efficiently. An efficient communication and an effective collaboration between patient monitoring systems and ICU nurses is only possible by designing systems sensitive to the abilities and preferences of nurses. In order to design these sensitive systems, we need to gain in-depth understanding of the user group through revealing their latent individual characteristics. To this end, we conducted a survey on individual characteristics involving nurses from two IC units. Our results shed light on the personality and other characteristics of ICU nurses. Subsequently, we performed hierarchical cluster analysis to develop data-driven nurse profiles. We suggest design recommendations tailored to four distinct user profiles to address their unique needs. By optimizing the system interactions to match the natural tendencies of nurses, we aspire to alleviate the cognitive burden induced by system use to ensure that healthcare providers receive relevant information, ultimately improving patient safety. Subject ICU nursesNurse profilesNursing experiencePatient monitoring systemsPersonalityStress To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b15a8500-b1d7-4db2-bb1a-9d184fb62687 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-024-00763-9 Embargo date 2024-10-22 ISSN 1435-5558 Source Cognition, Technology and Work Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2024 I. Bostan, R. van Egmond, D.A.M.P.J. Gommers, E. Ozcan Vieira Files file embargo until 2024-10-22