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the physician to articulate the annotation into
two parts: the
question
to be asked to the col-
league and the
description
which summarizes
information associated to the question. A third
part can be tailored according to the addressee
of the consultation request: if a physician needs
more details about the clinical case, the sender
may activate the
detailed description
and fill it,
otherwise the sender can hide it. Examples of
consulting windows are shown in Figure 7.
In other words, the physician who wants to
ask for a consultation is allowed to prepare a
tailored annotation specific to the physician he
is consulting. In a similar way, a physician can
make a different type of annotation in order to
add a comment that can be stored and possibly
viewed by his colleague. It is worth noting that
both types of annotation never damage the origi-
nal image. Back to the example of a consulting
request of the neurologist for the neuroradiolo-
gist, the neurologist can save the annotation, that
can be successively viewed by his colleagues.
When the neuroradiologist starts working with
his application workshop and finds the request
of the neurologist, he reads all the information
and answers by filling the proper fields in the
consulting window (see Figure 8).
related work
The SSW methodology has been influenced by
the work performed within the EUD-Net thematic
network. In literature, end-user programming and
end-user computing are often used as interchange-
able terms; for example, in Balaban, Barzilay,
and Elhadad (2002, p. 640), the authors discuss
“enhancing editors with
end-user program-
ming capabilities
”. They also say that “end-user
computing is needed in domains or applications
where the activity cannot be planned in advance”
and that it should have the flavor of “on-the-fly”
computing: that is, it should emerge during the
user activity, when the user needs to tailor the
environment or create a new software artifact,
according to some concrete situation. Brancheau
and Brown describe
end-user computing
as the
adoption and use of information technology by
people outside the information system department,
Figure 7. Examples of consulting windows: Leftmost image (a) is for a consultation request to a physician
who does not need further details and rightmost image (b) is for a consultation request to a physician
who needs details about the clinical case
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