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ISSN: 2329-6879 OMHA, an open access journal
Health Congress 2017
October 16-17, 2017
October 16-17, 2017 Dubai, UAE
12
th
World Congress on
Industrial Health, Healthcare and Medical Tourism
The potentials for hands-free interaction in micro-neurosurgery
Hoorieh Afkari
University of Eastern Finland, Finland
F
rom the first moment in diagnosis process to the last step of treatment, medical technologies empower practitioners
to conduct a successful process. Practitioners, as the main role in this process are the end users of these technologies.
In decades, medical procedures benefit from advances in healthcare technologies; yet, beyond the technical aspects, these
technologies take advantages from innovations in human-computer interaction research. Either an individual uses a medical
device, or there is a combination of several devices and a complex teamwork, the smooth interaction of practitioners with these
devices affects the quality of outcome. As new medical technologies are introduced into the operating rooms, these bring along
issues concerning ergonomics and human-factors that affect team collaboration. The mechanisms of team collaboration need
to be first understood. Same concept has been applied in micro-neurosurgery. Advances in the surgical microscopes bring
more precision to the treatment and empower the surgeon to conduct a successful procedure. However, recent researches
indeed reported that the use of the microscope imposes several constraints, both on the surgeon’s performance and on the
collaborative processes during the intraoperative care. Because the interaction with the surgical microscope is hand-based
through the control handgrips it has been observed previously that a source of interruption comes from the needs to adjust the
device. On the other hand, the surgical procedure is not confined to the surgeon’s work. The complex teamwork of the OR team
member and in particular, the scrub is an essential factor to achieve an error-free operation. It is important to know how the
presence of the microscope and constant engagement of the surgeon with it, effects on the work of the nurse and other team
members. We construct knowledge for improvement of the user interaction with the surgical microscope in neurosurgical
operating rooms and we explored the potentials for replacing the current hands-based interaction with gaze interaction.
Recent Publications
1.H Afkari, R Bednarik, S Makela and S Eivazi (2016) Mechanisms for maintaining situation awareness in the micro-neurosurgical operating room.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.;
95:
1–14.
2.S Eivazi, HAfkari, R Bednarik, V Leinonen, MTukiainen and J E Jaaskelainen (2015) Analysis of disruptive events and precarious situations caused by interaction with neurosurgical
microscope.
Acta Neurochir. (Wien);
157: 7.
References
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2.K O‘Hara, R Harper, H Mentis, A Sellen and A Taylor (2013) On the Naturalness of Touchless : Putting the Interaction Back into NUI. ACM Trans.
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Biography
Hoorieh Afkari has received her Master’s degree in 2013 and PhD degree in 2017 in Computer Science from School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland,
Finland. Her research interests are human computer interaction with the focus on medical environment and medical technologies, eye-tracking technology and
interaction design.
Hoorieh.afkari@uef.fiHoorieh Afkari, Occup Med Health Aff 2017, 5:4 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2329-6879-C1-037