Otorob (Ortho Robot) with Docmata (Doctor's Eye): Role of Remote Presence in Developing Countries

Iftikhar, Muhammad; Mariappan, Muralindran

doi:10.1109/centric.2009.14

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“…They can also assist nurses with reception tasks in hospitals (e.g., desk reception) [1]. Other robots are used for telemedicine [32,46] and surgery [62,75]. The aforementioned robots can help fill care gaps, which result from a shortage in the healthcare workforce and the growing number of patients that need medical care [69,74].…”

Section: Healthcare Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our work reveals some of the tasks that healthcare providers feel would be of greatest benefit to teams, which in turn will improve the likelihood that they will accept and utilize robots in these spaces. Furthermore, numerous robots have been successfully integrated into various clinical settings [1,23,32,46,54,58] which motivates the potential for robots to be designed for team settings as well. Our work raises many opportunities to design robots that can work effectively in team settings while addressing social challenges such as reluctance to adopt the robot in team workflow, disruption of the existing workflow, and the possibility of unexpected consequences of robots in these spaces.…”

Section: Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Coordinating Clinical Teams

Taylor

Lee

Kubota

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Patient safety errors account for over 400,000 preventable deaths annually in US in hospitals alone, 70% of which are caused by team communication breakdowns, stemming from hierarchical structures and asymmetrical power dynamics between physicians, nurses, patients, and others. Nurses are uniquely positioned to identify and prevent these errors, but they are often penalized for speaking up, particularly when physicians are responsible. Nevertheless, empowering nurses and building strong interdisciplinary teams can lead to improved patient safety and outcomes. Thus, our group has been developing a series of intelligent systems that support teaming in safety critical settings, Robot-Centric Team Support System (RoboTSS), and recently developed a group detection and tracking system for collaborative robots. In this paper, we explore how RoboTSS can be used to empower nurses in interprofessional team settings, through a three month long, collaborative design process with nurses across five US-based hospitals. The main findings and contributions of this paper are as follows. First, we found that participants envisioned using a robotic crash cart to guide resuscitation procedures to improve efficiency and reduce errors. Second, nurses discussed how RoboTSS can generate choreography for efficient spatial reconfigurations in co-located clinical teams, which is particularly important in time-sensitive situations such as resuscitation. Third, we found that nurses want to use RoboTSS to "stop the line", and disrupt power dynamics by policing unsafe physician behavior, such as avoiding safety protocols using a robotic crash cart. Fourth, nurses envisioned using our system to support real-time error identification, such as breaking the sterile field, and then communicating those errors to physicians, to relieve them of responsibility. Finally, based on our findings, we propose robot design implications that capture how nurses envision utilizing RoboTSS. We hope this work promotes further exploration in how to design technology to challenge authority in asymmetrical power relationships, particularly in healthcare, as strong teams save lives.

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Section: Healthcare Roboticsmentioning

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Section: Socialmentioning

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Coordinating Clinical Teams

Taylor

Lee

Kubota

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…This should also be true for remote operators who are primarily concerned with how they appear to locals, but are less concerned about how uneasy they (the remote operators) feel. An example of this situation might be a doctor doing "telerounding," i.e., engaging in virtual bedside rounds at the hospital from remote locations [30].…”

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Presentation of (telepresent) self: On the double-edged effects of mirrors

Takayama¹,

Harris²

2013

2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Mobile remote presence systems present new opportunities and challenges for physically distributed people to meet and work together. One of the challenges observed from a couple of years of using Texai, a mobile remote presence (MRP) system, is that remote operators are often unaware of how they present themselves through the MRP. Problems arise when remote operators are not clearly visible through the MRP video display; this mistake makes the MRP operators look like anonymous intruders into the local space rather than approachable colleagues. To address this problem, this study explores the effects of visual feedback for remote teleoperators, using a controlled experiment in which mirrors were either present or absent in the local room with the MRP system (N=24). Participants engaged in a warm-up remote communication task followed by a remote driving task. Compared to mirrors-absent participants, mirrors-present participants were more visible on the MRP screens and practiced navigating longer. However, the mirrors-present participants also reported experiencing more frustration and having less fun. Implications for theory and design are discussed.

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“…When these similar technologies are deployed in medical centers, it can offer healthcare to secluded areas, reduce cost by eliminating the need for transportation and provide aid in solving problems related to patient care in densely populated centers [3]. This is essentially needed by developing countries to overcome the lack of medical experts.…”

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Medical Tele-Diagnosis Robot (MTR) - Internet Based Communication & Navigation System

Mariappan

Ramu

Thiam

et al. 2014

AMM

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Medical Tele-diagnosis Robot (MTR) is a cost effective telemedicine mobile robot that provides tele-presence capability for the specialist on a remote location to virtually meet the patient, perform diagnostics and consult the resident doctor regarding the patient via internet. This paper highlights on the development of a doctor-robot interface where the doctor or user can control the robot reliably via regular internet connection from a different location, a distributed secured network for MTRs communication, an audiovisual communication system for tele-diagnosis and a navigation safety system called Danger Monitoring System (DMS) as part of MTRs assistive internet based navigation remote control system. The overall setup and maintenance cost of MTR is reduced by adopting a decentralized network via hybrid P2P technology. With this, the network load is distributed among the users. As for the audiovisual system, the timeliness of the video transmission from the robot to the operator can be attained by CUDA H.264 video encoding to reduce the size of the video stream and by taking advantage of the highly-parallel processors in the graphics processing unit. Combinations of sensors are place around the robot to provide data on the robots surrounding during operation. The sensors data are fed into the DMS algorithm which is equipped with fuzzy logic based artificial intelligence system to process the data from all the sensors and user input to decide preventative measures to avoid any danger to humans and the robot in terms of obstacle avoidance and robot tilt angle safety. The overall system is tested by a set of experiments and found to be demonstrating an acceptable performance. This system proved to be suitable to be used in MTR.

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Otorob (Ortho Robot) with Docmata (Doctor's Eye): Role of Remote Presence in Developing Countries

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Coordinating Clinical Teams

Coordinating Clinical Teams

Presentation of (telepresent) self: On the double-edged effects of mirrors

Medical Tele-Diagnosis Robot (MTR) - Internet Based Communication & Navigation System

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