Artemis: Mixed-reality environment for immersive surgical telementoring

Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020

Nadir Weibel, Danilo Gasques, Janet Johnson, Thomas Sharkey, Zhuoqun Robin Xu, Xinming Zhang, Enrique Zavala, Michael Yip, Konrad Davis

Publisher Link: http://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3334480.3383169

Abstract: The golden hour following a traumatic injury holds the highest likelihood where surgical treatment may prevent mortality and morbidity. However, the increasing occurrence of large-scale disasters, overwhelm local medical systems and patients find themselves without timely access to medical expertise. To respond to this problem medical care experts are exploring telemedicine, which typically attempts to use synchronous audiovisual communication. While current telemedicine approaches have limited ability to impact the physical care required for trauma, AR technology allows medical professionals to see their patients while seeing additional digital information. In this paper we describe ARTEMIS (Augmented Reality Technology to Enable reMote Integrated Surgery), an immersive AR-VR telementoring infrastructure that allows experienced surgeons to remotely aid less experienced medical professionals in the …

Weibel et al. (2020) Artemis: Mixed-reality environment for immersive surgical telementoring, Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1-4.