BACKGROUND Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) causes significant morbidity and mortality in critically ill surgical patients. Recent studies suggest that the success of preventive measures is dependent on compliance with ventilator bundle parameters. HYPOTHESIS Implementation of an electronic dashboard will improve compliance with the bundle parameters and reduce rates of VAP in our surgic...

In today economic environment, innovation is considered the primary source of competitive advantage for companies. The advent of Web 2.0 tools has provided organizations with new models and tools to improve collaboration and co-creation of new knowledge assets. In particular, the shift to Open Innovation models has been recognized as a major change in the way companies create and manage innovat...

Background: Contemporary software development organizations utilize multiple channels to disseminate information about their indicators, measures, trends and predictions. Selecting these channels is usually done based on the availability of the visualization technology and a set of requirements elicited from stakeholders at the company. Eliciting these kind of requirements can be labor-intensiv...

Although learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) has been well studied, little research has investigated what role teachers can play, if empowered with data. Many ITSs provide student performance reports, but they may not be designed to serve teachers’ needs well, which is important for a well-designed dashboard. We investigated what student data is most helpful to teachers and how the...

In this paper, we present some of our ongoing, as well as more recent work designing, implementing, and improving three tools to help university instructors and department leaders make evidence-based improvements to instruction. The first tool, Know Your Students, is a very early prototype that helps instructors tailor their instruction based on characteristics of the students they would not ot...

We develop a context-sensitive dashboard to assist knowledge workers. The term context in our scenario defines explicit categories used to group observed native operations (NOPs) performed, and these NOPs correspond to actions undertaken during work. The dashboard consists of several small applications, widgets, that permit quick access to such entities as files, bookmarks, persons, and notes a...