Cognitive Load in Healthcare
Additional information
Type of assignment: BSc. thesis
Internal/external: Internal (with possible external collaborations)
How many students? 2 Individually and together
Includes data collection? Yes
Type of research: Empirical
Number of ECTS? 15 ECTS
Research assignment
In hospitals, many professionals perform their task under high time pressure while dealing with issues that may be life threatening. These conditions implies a major stress factor for these professionals. It has been proposed that part of their workload can be reduced by using AI tools, but reliance on such tools deals with issues as reliability and trust. Furthermore, the question is whether these tools effectively reduce stress and cognitive load. You will examine critical experiences of several healthcare professionals and simulated experiences by employing techniques such as cognitive task analysis (CTA), which may provide more detailed information about experienced stress and its underlying sources. An important goal of these examinations is to assess whether the introduction of AI tools likely reduces stress of healthcare professionals, which in the end may increase the overall quality of healthcare.
Who do we look for?
Motivated students that are interested in learning to apply cognitive task analysis such as the critical decision method and applied cognitive task analysis.To be able to collect sufficient data you may have to travel to different cities (e.g., Nijmegen).
References
Crandall, B., Klein, G. A., & Hoffman, R. R. (2006). Working minds: A practitioner's guide to cognitive task analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp. 9-90).