Objective: Alarm fatigue is a widely recognized safety and quality problem where exposure
to high rates of clinical alarms results in desensitization leading to dismissal of or slowed …

Sonification, or the practice of generating sound from data, is a promising alternative or
complement to data visualization for exploring research questions in the life sciences …

Background Cognitive ergonomics design of patient monitoring may reduce human factor
errors in high-stress environments. Eye-tracking is a suitable tool to gain insight into the …

Background Acoustic alarms in medical devices are vital for patient safety. State-of-the-art
patient monitoring alarms are indistinguishable and contribute to alarm fatigue. There are …

Along with the increase of digitalization and automation, a new kind of working environment
is emerging in the field of air traffic control. Instead of situating the control tower at the airport …

We describe two proof-of-concept approaches on the sonification of estimated operation
states and conditions focusing on two scenarios: a laboratory setup of a manipulated 3D …

Spearcons—time-compressed speech phrases—may be an effective way of communicating
vital signs to clinicians without disturbing patients and their families. Four experiments tested …

Background Anaesthetists monitor auditory information about a patient's vital signs in an
environment that can be noisy and while performing other cognitively demanding tasks. It …

Oxygen saturation monitoring of neonates is a demanding task, as oxygen saturation (SpO2)
has to be maintained in a particular range. However, auditory displays of conventional pulse …

BACKGROUND: When engaged in visually demanding tasks, anesthesiologists depend on
the auditory display of the pulse oximeter (PO) to provide information about patients' oxygen …