The AWARE project started Marts 2003. The main focus in the project is on how to support awareness among clinicians working in a hospital. Field studies have provided valuable input to the project and several workshops with clinician have been carried out.

Currently AwareMedia and AwarePhone, two working prototype system is running from December 2005 to Marts 2006 as a pilot study in a hospital and is used by between 50-100 clinician every day.

AwareMedia is a collaborate awareness system for the operating ward in a hospital. The system runs on large wall display and shows information about the location of the people at work. Status information and live video from the different operating rooms are distributed to different key location within the hospital.
Project page - only Danish.

The AwarePhone and Aware Architecture is a distributed system for providing Awareness between mobile people within an organization. We currently support a wide variety of client. One of the clients we have implemented the system on is a Nokia Series 60 phone (all models).

The system is currently been deployed at a hospital to 20 doctors.

For more information:

Bardram, J.E., Hansen, T.R. The AWARE Architecture: Supporting Context Mediated Social Awareness in Mobile Cooperation, full paper in Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pages 192-201, ACM Press, 2004. (pdf)

An overview of the AWARE architecture (Click the picture for enlargement)

An overview of the AWARE phone architecture (Click the picture for enlargement)

2005 December: A three month pilot study has begone with AwarePhone and AwareMedia
2005 autumn: Working on getting the AwarePhone and the Aware Architecture up running in a real hospital environment (Project page - only Danish).
2004 summer: Paper accepted at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference CSCW
2004 February: Developing a new and improved prototype
2003 September: Analysing data and writing a report
2003 June: Evaluation Workshop with two nurses and two doctors from the Århus University Hospital
2003 May-June: Development of a first prototype running on Symbian Mobile Phone
2003 Marts: – Field studies at the Århus University Hospital