Welcome to the CoMind Lab!

Our research group studies decision-making under uncertainty, such as in the emergency room, to gain a clearer understanding of how medical diagnosis and other high-risk decisions can be improved.

Ongoing study

How is teamwork experienced in the diagnostic process of emergency care?

The ethnographic research team at our lab explores this question through in-depth observations and interviews in Swiss emergency departments.

Learn more about the team and the current project.

News

December 2025: The CoMind Lab is participating in the BSAH Conference in London with two posters, a talk, and a workshop.

November 2025: Team Ethnography completes the first half of its data collection (more information about the study can be found here). Lara completes the data collection for her study on teamwork in medical diagnoses.

September/November 2025: Juliane presents the work of the CoMind Lab at the Society & Choice Research Seminar at the University of Basel and at the Organizational Behavior Semiar at Unil.

The CoMind Lab is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) with a Starting Grant to Prof. Dr. Juliane Kämmer (project number TMSGI1_218047). The lab is part of the Diagnostic Quality Lab at the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland.