AIMC Topic: User-Computer Interface

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Assisting e-patients in an Ask the Doctor Service.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Ask the doctor services are personalized forums allowing patients to ask questions directly to doctors. Usually, patients must choose the most appropriate category for their question among lots of categories to be redirected to the most relevant phys...

Health consumer-oriented information retrieval.

Studies in health technology and informatics
While patients can freely access their Electronic Health Records or online health information, they may not be able to correctly understand the content of these documents. One of the challenges is related to the difference between expert and non-expe...

Caregiver and social assistant robot for rehabilitation and coaching for the elderly.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
BACKGROUND: Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has been a major field of investigation during the last decade and, as it develops, the groups the technology can be applied to and all ways in which these can be assisted are rapidly increasing.

A review of training research and virtual reality simulators for the da Vinci surgical system.

Teaching and learning in medicine
UNLABELLED: PHENOMENON: Virtual reality simulators are the subject of several recent studies of skills training for robot-assisted surgery. Yet no consensus exists regarding what a core skill set comprises or how to measure skill performance. Definin...

Pooling knowledge and improving safety for contracted works at a large industrial park.

Work (Reading, Mass.)
BACKGROUND: At a large chemical park maintenance is contracted by the major companies operating the plants to many small firms. The cultural and psychological isolation of contractor workers was recognized a root cause of severe accidents in the rece...

Sharing control between humans and automation using haptic interface: primary and secondary task performance benefits.

Human factors
This paper describes a paradigm for human/automation control sharing in which the automation acts through a motor coupled to a machine's manual control interface. The manual interface becomes a haptic display, continually informing the human about au...