Adaptive Medical Console Interface for Operator Knowledge
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Solution Overview
Problem
Proficient operation of medical imaging units for coronary heart disease diagnosis and treatment requires extensive specialist knowledge, leading to training challenges and potential gaps in knowledge, especially in emergency situations where medical care may be compromised.
Innovation Solution
The operating console is equipped with a sensor device to ascertain the user's level of knowledge and a test device to check access rights, allowing for a dynamically customizable user interface that adapts to the user's training level, providing graduated access to application software and customized menus to simplify operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the operating console provides comprehensive functionality and detailed information to ensure high-quality diagnosis and treatment, then the diagnostic and treatment quality is improved, but the complexity of operation increases and requires extensive specialist knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is made dynamically adaptable to the user's knowledge level. The system automatically adjusts the complexity of displayed information, available functions, and guidance based on the detected user profile, transforming a static complex interface into a dynamic one that simplifies operation for less experienced users while maintaining comprehensive functionality for experts.
Solution Approach 2:
The comprehensive functionality is segmented into different levels of access based on user knowledge. The interface is divided into basic functions visible to all users and advanced functions accessible only to trained personnel, allowing the system to provide high-quality diagnostic capabilities while simplifying the operational interface for each user level.
2Reliability
If intensive training is provided to ensure proficient operation of the medical imaging unit, then the level of specialist knowledge is improved, but the availability of operating personnel for routine examinations decreases during training periods
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service through automated guidance and assistance functions that deliver context-sensitive information and step-by-step instructions based on the user's knowledge level. This allows less trained personnel to operate the system effectively without requiring extensive formal training, thereby maintaining knowledge standards while preserving personnel availability.
Solution Approach 2:
An automated assistance system acts as an intermediary between the complex medical imaging system and the operator. This intermediary provides real-time guidance, explains functions, and adapts the interface to the user's knowledge level, effectively transferring expert knowledge through the system rather than requiring it to be pre-loaded into the operator's mind through lengthy training.
3Ease of operation
If the user interface is customized to match the user's knowledge level, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases due to the need for detection and adaptation mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes parameters of the user interface (information density, function availability, guidance level) based on the detected user knowledge level. Rather than creating entirely different interfaces, the system dynamically adjusts existing interface parameters such as the amount of displayed information, complexity of menus, and level of contextual assistance, simplifying operation without requiring complex interface architecture.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a medical apparatus for diagnosis and/or treatment using a procedure (20), with an operating console (11) to control the use of components of the procedure (20), the operating console (11) having an input device (22), an output device (27) and an assistance module (26) to assist the user, which can be adapted to users' varying levels of training. This enables the user interfaces of the operating console to be adapted to the varying levels of knowledge of the medical operating personnel, so that the user in question is offered only those commands, with corresponding additional information, which the user has for example already learned during training.