by Danny Schott, Florian Heinrich, Dominic Labsch, Bennet Hensen, Christian Hansen
Abstract:
Touchless interaction is popular in the medical do-main because it maintains sterility and ensures physicians’autonomy. Evaluating these technologies, however, provesdifficult due to technical and human hurdles. Virtual realityleaves these limitations behind and allows for the explorationof promising concepts by simulating an environment and theinteractions that takes place within it. We present a virtual radi-ology suite in the context of needle-based MR-interventions toevaluate touchless interactions. Hand and foot inputs were im-plemented on a custom interface and evaluated in a user study(n= 16). Results show that activating the system and manipu-lating values was faster with foot input. However, multimodalinteraction is preferable because it is less demanding.
Reference:
Towards multimodal interaction for needlebased procedures in a virtual radiology suite (Danny Schott, Florian Heinrich, Dominic Labsch, Bennet Hensen, Christian Hansen), In , volume 8, 2022.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{schott_towards_2022,
	series = {Current {Directions} in {Biomedical} {Engineering}},
	title = {Towards multimodal interaction for needlebased procedures in a virtual radiology suite},
	volume = {8},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2022-0018},
	doi = {10.1515/cdbme-2022-0018},
	abstract = {Touchless interaction is popular in the medical do-main  because  it  maintains  sterility  and  ensures  physicians’autonomy.  Evaluating  these  technologies,  however,    provesdifficult  due  to  technical  and  human  hurdles.  Virtual  realityleaves these limitations behind and allows for the explorationof promising concepts by simulating an environment and theinteractions that takes place within it. We present a virtual radi-ology suite in the context of needle-based MR-interventions toevaluate touchless interactions. Hand and foot inputs were im-plemented on a custom interface and evaluated in a user study(n= 16). Results show that activating the system and manipu-lating values was faster with foot input. However, multimodalinteraction is preferable because it is less demanding.},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2023-02-09},
	author = {Schott, Danny and Heinrich, Florian and Labsch, Dominic and Hensen, Bennet and Hansen, Christian},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {70--73}
}