Surgical Video Summarization: Multifarious Uses, Summarization Process and Ad-Hoc Coordination

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While surgical videos are valuable support material for activities around surgery, their summarization demands great amounts of time from surgeons, leading to very few videos being produced. We study the practices around surgical video to motivate and inform the design of dedicated tools. Through interviews and observations in a field study, we find that (1) video summaries provide an important support for surgery, being used for self-improvement, education, discussing cases, scientific publications, patient communication and as legal resources; (2) video summarization follows a process, hindered by the loss of knowledge that originates during recording; and (3) surgeons develop ad-hoc strategies to articulate coordination. These strategies involve using the video for articulation work, making it both the coordination artifact and the field of work. We discuss ways in which tools can facilitate capturing knowledge in live action using this strategy.