Taneva, Svetlena

ETH Zürich Svetlena Taneva Computer Engineering and Networks Lab; Work, Organization and Technology group Gloriastrasse 35 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 658 2702 E-Mail:

Background

• PhD(Cand.) in design of surgical systems - ETH Zurich, 2010
• Masters in Computer Science - Brandeis Universtity, USA, 2005
• Bachelor in Psychology - Guilford College, USA, 2001

Research Interests

• Design Methods for Healthcare Systems
• Safety, Communication Breakdowns and Human Error
• RFID in the hospital
• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

Projects

• Analsyis of surgical process breakdowns at 2 large urban teaching hospitals - a project in cooperation with University Health Network, Canada. Aug 2007 - present
• Design of an angiography system at Siemens Corporate Technology/Siemens Medical. July-Oct 2006
• Visiting scientist at LIIHS, France. Project that examined the design methods used in Air-Traffic Control systems and how to transfer such methodologies to medical systems design. Feb-March 2006
• EU project MAUSE: Towards the MAturation of Information Technology USability Evaluation. Sept. 2005-present

Publications

• Decoding the perioperative process breakdowns: a theoretical model and implications for system design. Taneva S., Grote G., Easty A., Plattner B. (in press) Int'l Journal of Medical Informatics, 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.10.001. [link] [pdf]
• Approaching the hotspot increases the impact: process breakdowns in a safety-critical system-of-systems. Taneva, D., Higgins, J., Easty, A., Plattner, B. Proc IEEE Systems Conf, Vancouver, Canada 2009. [link] [pdf]
• Breaks in Continuity of Surgical Care: Considerations for eHealth Systems Design. Taneva S., Grote G., Law E., Higgins, J. IEEE Computer, Proc Intl Conf eHealth Telemed Soc Med, Cancun, 2009. [link] [pdf]
• In and Out of the Hospital: the Hidden Interface of High Fidelity Research via RFID. Taneva S., Law E. Proc INTERACT 2007, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2007. [link] [pdf]
• Interfacing Safety and Communication Breakdowns: Situated Medical Technology Design. Taneva S., Law E.. Proc 12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Beijing, China, 2007. [link] [pdf]
• Analysis of Communication Breakdowns for eHealth Systems Design. Taneva S., Palanque P., Basnyat S., Winckler M., Law E.. Proc 6th Nordic Conference on eHealth and Telemedicine, Helsinki, Finland, 2006.
• Clinical Systems Design: Task Modeling with Failure in Mind. Poster - MedNet, Toronto, Canada, 2006.
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborative Depth. Taneva, S., Alterman, R., Hickey, T. Proc 27th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, 2005.
• GREWPtool: a System for Studying Online Collaborative Learning . Taneva, S., Alterman, R., Granville, K., Head, M., and Hickey, T. Technical Report CS-03-239, Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University, 2004.
• A Computational Framework for the Study of Collaborative Learning. Poster - Cognitive Science Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 2004.

Participation in Conference Committees

• International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine - eTELEMED 2010 (Technical Program Committee) - St. Maarten, Netherlands
• IEEE 2009 Science and Technology for Humanity (Technical Program Committee) - Toronto, Canada
• Int. System Safety 2008 Co-chair of the Workshop "Safety-Critical Systems Design and Evaluation: Transferability of Methods between Aviation and Healthcare" - Vancouver, Canada.
• INTERACT 2007 Co-Chair of the Workshop "Usability Evaluation of Social Software" - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• INTERACT 2007 (Scientific Review Committee) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• MedNet 2006 World Congress on Internet in Medicine (Scientific Review Committee) - Toronto, Canada

Invited Talks

• Communication Breakdowns in the Surgical Process , Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, January 26, 2009
• Disablers of First Case Starts , Nursing Leadership Forum, University Health Network, January 13, 2009
• Disablers of First Case Starts , Clinical Management Team Quality Meeting, University Health Network, November 24, 2008
• Disablers of First Case Starts , Surgical Nursing Team, University Health Network, October 3, 2008
• Surgical Process Breakdowns , Human Factors Team, University Health Network, July 10, 2008
• Communication in the Healthcare System – the Human Factors View , Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, March 18 2008

Honors

• Included in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2010 biography collection.
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (US) scholarship in relation to the "Delivering Safe and Optimal Care Through Effective Teamwork and Communication" seminar.