Hill of Tara outside Dublin, Ireland, Summer 09
Hey! My name is Abdesalam Soudi I am originally from Agadir, Morocco (Berber and Arab descent). I go by Soudi. I am a Teaching Fellow and a PhD Candidate in the department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. My Advisor is Dr. Scott Kiesling. I am also an Adjunct Faculty in the department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
My doctoral work is focused on Human Computer Interface in Doctors’ Consultations---Doctor Patient Computer Interaction (DPCI). As we all know, computers have become ubiquitous in patients’ rooms. Doctors, once focused solely on the patient, now use the omniscient computer as an intermediary. While physicians are trained to use medical software, they are not trained on the new subtleties of medical interviewing with a computer as a partner in the room. My dissertation project seeks to provide a description of the dynamics of medical interviews that involve using a computer while interacting with patients. These underlying forces may not be obvious to the common medical observer but may become more elucidated under the scrutiny of conversation analysis. This description will then provide a framework for additional analysis to improve the use of computers in the medical interview. I make recommendations for the doctor-patient-computer interface in order to improve the medical interview while continuing to take advantage of the intelligence offered by information technology. This project opens the exciting possibility of creating a practical resource for training physicians, residents and medical students on how to use the computer in a patient context.
For my current research I use video as an investigative tool to capture talk and visible conduct of human computer interaction in the exam room. Thanks to a collaborative partnership that I established between my department of linguistics and the department of Family Medicine in 2006 through a joint collaboration with my colleague and co-investigator Dr. Jeannette South-Paul, my video data comes from a primary care setting at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Please visit my research page to learn more about my research design, protocol, setting, methods and materials.Video-based research enables me to look at the interactive co-ordination of both the sequential structures of (verbal) interaction and the simultaneity of different modalities of interaction (speech, gaze, gesture, facial expression, manipulation of objects, etc) in context-sensitive locations of the medical interview.
I have also worked on the Sequential Organization of Adult Medical Closings: terminal exchanges between doctors and patients, and a number of other projects on medical discourse. Using the same research data from videotaped encounters between doctors and their patients, I am also doing research on usage-based grammar, focusing particularly on doctors and patients’ grammars to provide additional argumentation in favor of a usage-based nature of grammar (Grammar in turns, sequences and adjacency pairs).
My other areas of expertise in linguistics include language contact and Diglossia in Morocco and their implications for language teaching and language planning, the syntax and Morphology of Arabic, sociolinguistics of Arabic and cross-cultural communication.
My doctoral work is focused on Human Computer Interface in Doctors’ Consultations---Doctor Patient Computer Interaction (DPCI). As we all know, computers have become ubiquitous in patients’ rooms. Doctors, once focused solely on the patient, now use the omniscient computer as an intermediary. While physicians are trained to use medical software, they are not trained on the new subtleties of medical interviewing with a computer as a partner in the room. My dissertation project seeks to provide a description of the dynamics of medical interviews that involve using a computer while interacting with patients. These underlying forces may not be obvious to the common medical observer but may become more elucidated under the scrutiny of conversation analysis. This description will then provide a framework for additional analysis to improve the use of computers in the medical interview. I make recommendations for the doctor-patient-computer interface in order to improve the medical interview while continuing to take advantage of the intelligence offered by information technology. This project opens the exciting possibility of creating a practical resource for training physicians, residents and medical students on how to use the computer in a patient context.
For my current research I use video as an investigative tool to capture talk and visible conduct of human computer interaction in the exam room. Thanks to a collaborative partnership that I established between my department of linguistics and the department of Family Medicine in 2006 through a joint collaboration with my colleague and co-investigator Dr. Jeannette South-Paul, my video data comes from a primary care setting at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Please visit my research page to learn more about my research design, protocol, setting, methods and materials.Video-based research enables me to look at the interactive co-ordination of both the sequential structures of (verbal) interaction and the simultaneity of different modalities of interaction (speech, gaze, gesture, facial expression, manipulation of objects, etc) in context-sensitive locations of the medical interview.
I have also worked on the Sequential Organization of Adult Medical Closings: terminal exchanges between doctors and patients, and a number of other projects on medical discourse. Using the same research data from videotaped encounters between doctors and their patients, I am also doing research on usage-based grammar, focusing particularly on doctors and patients’ grammars to provide additional argumentation in favor of a usage-based nature of grammar (Grammar in turns, sequences and adjacency pairs).
My other areas of expertise in linguistics include language contact and Diglossia in Morocco and their implications for language teaching and language planning, the syntax and Morphology of Arabic, sociolinguistics of Arabic and cross-cultural communication.
