Collaborative co-design of emerging multi-technologies for surgery

  • Authors:
  • Adinda Freudenthal;Thomas Stüdeli;Pablo Lamata;Eigil Samset

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands;Siemens Molecular Imaging, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, United Kingdom;University of Oslo, Centre of Mathematics for Applications, Problemveien 7, 1072, Oslo N-0316, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The EU Research Training Network on Augmented Reality in Surgery (ARIS*ER) was established with two aims: (1) to develop next-generation novel image guidance (augmented reality based on medical images) and cross-linked robotic systems (automatic control loops guided by information sensed from the patient) and (2) to educate young researchers in the user-centred, multidisciplinary design of emerging technologies for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and intervention radiology. Collaborations between engineers, Human Factors specialists, industrial designers and medical end users were foreseen, but actual methodologies had to be developed. Three applications were used as development vehicles and as demonstrators. The resulting teamwork and process of indentifying requirements, finding solutions (in technology and workflow), and shifting between these to optimize and speed development towards quality of care were studied. The ARIS*ER approach solves current problems in collaborative teams, taking a systems approach, and manages the overview of requirements and solutions, which is too complex to manage centrally.