MinIAttention: Attention Management in Minimal Invasive Surgery
Laparoscopic surgical suboptimal outcomes in patient safety measures are correlated with (i) cognitive load / level of attention of the operating surgeon, (ii) the frequency and degree of disruptions to the surgical workflow, and (iii) the misalignment of visual and motor axes in laparoscopic equipment / setting (eye-hand coordination).
This project will create the foundational, design and operational principles of future, surgeon-friendly minimal invasive surgery operating room information technologies (MIS-IT), which given the ever growing complexity in surgical workflows, as well as instrument and equipment settings will have to build on human attention as a scarce resource.
On the formal models and methods side, MinIAttention will
- identify types of human attention, as well as
- cognitive and physiological mechanisms revealing its relation to perception, memory, decision making, and learning.
- characterize aspects of attention of surgeons during MIS operations, by
- focusing on established theories of individual attention and respective attention models
Consortium: Institut für Pervasive Computing (JKU, Lead), AKh Linz GmbH, Karl Storz Endoskop Austria GmbH, University of Sussex, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. FFG, BRIDGE Frühphase, 3. Ausschreibung (2014), Projekt 851227