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dc.contributor.authorErol Barkana, D.
dc.contributor.authorAçık, Alper
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T08:00:53Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T08:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.identifier.issn1742-4682
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/694
dc.identifier.urihttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1742-4682-11-S1-S4?view=classic
dc.description.abstractSurgical interfaces are used for helping surgeons in interpretation and quantification of the patient information, and for the presentation of an integrated workflow where all available data are combined to enable optimal treatments. Human factors research provides a systematic approach to design user interfaces with safety, accuracy, satisfaction and comfort. One of the human factors research called user-centered design approach is used to develop a surgical interface for kidney tumor cryoablation. An eye tracking device is used to obtain the best configuration of the developed surgical interface. Surgical interface for kidney tumor cryoablation has been developed considering the four phases of user-centered design approach, which are analysis, design, implementation and deployment. Possible configurations of the surgical interface, which comprise various combinations of menu-based command controls, visual display of multi-modal medical images, 2D and 3D models of the surgical environment, graphical or tabulated information, visual alerts, etc., has been developed. Experiments of a simulated cryoablation of a tumor task have been performed with surgeons to evaluate the proposed surgical interface. Fixation durations and number of fixations at informative regions of the surgical interface have been analyzed, and these data are used to modify the surgical interface. Eye movement data has shown that participants concentrated their attention on informative regions more when the number of displayed Computer Tomography (CT) images has been reduced. Additionally, the time required to complete the kidney tumor cryoablation task by the participants had been decreased with the reduced number of CT images. Furthermore, the fixation durations obtained after the revision of the surgical interface are very close to what is observed in visual search and natural scene perception studies suggesting more efficient and comfortable interaction with the surgical interface. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) and Short Post-Assessment Situational Awareness (SPASA) questionnaire results have shown that overall mental workload of surgeons related with surgical interface has been low as it has been aimed, and overall situational awareness scores of surgeons have been considerably high. This preliminary study highlights the improvement of a developed surgical interface using eye tracking technology to obtain the best SI configuration. The results presented here reveal that visual surgical interface design prepared according to eye movement characteristics may lead to improved usability.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Commission
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Science+Business Mediaen_US
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/270396en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTheoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.titleImprovement of design of a surgical interface using an eye tracking deviceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.versionpublisher version
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatuspublished
dc.contributor.departmentÖzyeğin University
dc.contributor.authorID(ORCID 0000-0002-9706-4662 & YÖK ID 254804) Açık, Alper
dc.contributor.ozuauthorAçık, Alper
dc.identifier.volume11
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage4
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000345789700001
dc.subject.keywordsSurgical interfaceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHuman factor analysisen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUser-centered approachen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEye trackingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMental workload analysisen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSituation awarenessen_US
dc.identifier.scopusSCOPUS:2-s2.0-84900341004
dc.contributor.authorMale1
dc.relation.publicationcategoryArticle - International Refereed Journal - Institutional Academic Staff


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