ITR: Collaborative Research: Large Scale Collaboration in Critical Environments

在关键环境中运作的组织，如医院和安全机构，已经演变成以团队为基础的准分散结构。这些组织的安全、效率和高质量绩效取决于组织支持大规模协作的能力，即在动态且易受风险影响的环境中跨团队、任务和资源进行实时协调。这项研究通过创伤中心的实地研究、移动设备的实时协调技术开发以及实验室研究来了解团队、人员和资源之间的协调，从而开始解决大规模协作中的协调问题。本研究旨在开发一套大规模协作中的轨迹管理理论和管理工具，以及跨团队协作的实用解决方案。来自马里兰大学医学院、卡内基梅隆大学和亚利桑那大学的研究人员将合作进行这项研究。这个项目将改进组织科学的理论，增加对如何在关键环境中开发新信息技术的理解，并改善医院和其他重要组织的协调。

Organizations operating in critical environments, such as hospitals and security agencies, have evolved into team-based, quasi-decentralized structures. Safety, efficiency, and quality performance in these organizations depend on the ability of the organization to support large scale collaboration-real time coordination across teams, tasks, and resources in a dynamic and risk-prone environment. This research begins to tackle problems of coordination in large-scale collaboration through field research in a trauma center, technology development of mobile devices for real time coordination, and laboratory studies to understand coordination across teams, people, and resources. The research aims to develop a theory of trajectory management and management tools in large-scale collaboration and practical solutions to cross-team coordination. Researchers from University of Maryland Medical School, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Arizona will collaborate on this research. This project will improve theory in organization science, increase understanding of how to exploit new information technology in critical environments, and improve coordination in hospitals and other vital organizations.