Recent News & Events

January 2013: Awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for my research on improving team awareness during emergency medical situations through interactive information presentation. January 2013: Invited to serve on the CSCW 2014 Program Committee. December 2013: Two posters co-authored with my PhD students accepted to iConference 2013. November 2012: Invited to serve on the AMIA 2013 Scientific Program Committee. October 2012: Paper on visual attention of teams during trauma resuscitation accepted to CSCW 2013! Co-authored with Diana Kusunoki and Zhan Zhang, my PhD students, and Dr. Burd from Children's National Medical Center. September 2012: NIH R21 grant awarded to continue our work on paper-digital interface for information capture and display in trauma resuscitation. September 2012: Invited talk at the FAA's William J. Hughes Technical Center Human Factors Branch, Atlantic City, NJ. August, 2012: Workshop on informal communication in health practices accepted to CSCW 2013. Thanks to my co-organizers Yunan Chen, Charlotte Tang, Xiaomu Zhou and Soyoung Lee. See CFP for more information! May 2012: Invited to Co-Chair the Pervasive Health 2013 Doctoral Consortium. Application deadline is March 15, 2013. See CFP for more information Past News & Events

About Me & My Research Interests

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Science and Technology, also known as The iSchool, at Drexel University. Before coming to Drexel, I spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I completed my doctoral studies in Information Science at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University in October 2009. More... The goal of my research is to understand how individuals within collocated teams interact, communicate and make decisions while solving complex problems under time pressure. So far, my research has focused on studying trauma resuscitation teams as they treat severely injured patients immediately after injury. My approach is multidisciplinary, user-centered and team-oriented. I work closely with engineers, computer scientists and trauma surgeons to inform the design of technological solutions to support information sharing and medical decision making. More...

Selected Publications

Kusunoki, D. S., Sarcevic, A., Zhang, Z., and Burd, R. S., "Understanding visual attention of teams in dynamic medical settings through vital signs monitor use," in Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (ACM CSCW 2013), pp. 527-540, San Antonio, Texas, February 23-27, 2013. Sarcevic, A., Marsic, I., and Burd, R. S., "Teamwork errors in trauma resuscitation," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), vol. 19, no. 2, article 13, July 2012. Sarcevic, A., Palen, L. A., and Burd, R. S., "Coordinating time-critical work with role-tagging," in Proceedings of the ACM 2011 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011), pp. 465-474, Hangzhou, China, March 19-23, 2011. More...

Student Collaborators

Diana Kusunoki, Ph.D. student at The iSchool at Drexel Zhan Zhang, Ph.D. student at The iSchool at Drexel Nina Multak, Ph.D. student at The iSchool at Drexel Maria Yala, Undergraduate student at the College of Engineering, Drexel U. More...

My Photo on a Whim

I love to travel (well, who doesn't?!) and am always on a lookout for inspiring vistas! Here, I share some interesting ones from my recent travels...

My Photo on a Whim A welcome sign of a store in Durango, CO (August 2011)