Marie Curie Action

Intelligence in Medical Technology

A.Freudenthal, M.Melles, A.Jalote-Parmar, T.P.Studeli, H.de Ridder

Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Delft University of Technology, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands

e-mail: A.Freudenthal@tudelft.nl

www.io.tudelft.nl/medisingn and www.studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/freudenthal/

ABSTRACT

Medisingn TU Delft has a focus especially on medical products of the future. This includes design aimed at satisfying heman needs and extending possibilities, of medical users, patients and their families. Participatory design is involving professionals and other end users through the whole research and design process shows to be a strong method aplied by Medisgn Delft. It involves not only problems in human-product interaction, but also increasing the opportunities offered by new technologies. One of the new technology areas in ICT is Intelligence in Medical Technology. This paper gives an overview of this line of research. Output is participatory methods, design requirements and design solutions for next generation medical equipment. Hypotheses are being tested with innovative prototypes and storyboards.

Designing innovative ICT based products for diagnostic and treatments is being done as a co-effort in a multidisciplinary eam including end-users and other domain experts and design/human factor specialists. If novel embedded technology systems are developed in parallel to the interface, technology partners should also be involved in co-design. This is done for intervention guidance based on radionlogical (3D) images. Novel multi-disciplinary design methods are being developed, to tackle communication problems between disciplines (1), and to facilitate actual design activities of end users. With advanced systems the chances are great that international teams are needed.

The research and design activities aim to match the work process and -flow in time. Some example projects ate: - To support phases in experience building. Five design were made, to support intuitive usage, e-learning, embedded help and also a team trainer, education the medical procedures to ICU personnel. The trainer (for a respiratory device) switches between didactic levels, depending on the automatically assesed experience level. -To support the workflow in medical procedures: - A model for enhanced interpretation, anticipation adn reflection, assists in defining required adaptive content (2). - For Intensive care a more silent alarm system was design, to provide appropriate attention distribution, workload and cognitive processes. It is partly communicating by tactile cues. - In ARISER the intra operative support is being designed for Augmented Reality in Surgery (www.ariser.info). The aim is to provide super sensing and super vision to the surgeons to compensate for lack of sensory input while working in minimally invasive therapies.

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