Amy Cheatle

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Amy Cheatle is a leading scholar at the intersection of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), and healthcare technologies. Her research investigates how advanced surgical robotics, particularly the da Vinci system, fundamentally reshape teamwork, communication, and sensory practices in the operating room. In her highly cited work, *Operating at a Distance* (59 citations), Cheatle reveals how teleoperated robots spatially redistribute surgical teams, creating new coordination challenges and altering traditional hierarchies. Her follow-up study, *Sensing (Co)operations* (28 citations), delves deeper into the sensory reconfiguration of surgery, showing how teams must recalibrate their work when visual, auditory, and tactile cues are transformed by robotic mediation. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork across two teaching hospitals, Cheatle’s contributions provide critical insights for designing collaborative technologies that support, rather than disrupt, expert teamwork. Her work has become essential reading for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand the human and organizational dimensions of robotic surgery, highlighting the profound social and sensory implications of operating at a distance.