Medical Avatar Display Synchronization to Reduce Clinician Distraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The use of multiple animated avatars in medical displays can lead to visual distraction and confusion, potentially causing mental and physical fatigue among clinicians, necessitating a solution to maintain the benefits of animated patient representations while reducing confusion and distraction.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling a display by generating synchronized display control signals for multiple avatars, aligning the start, mid, and end points of their repeating animations to reduce confusion and distraction, and optionally desynchronizing animations when critical parameters exceed thresholds or alerts are triggered.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple animated avatars are used to visualize patient vital signs, then information delivery speed is improved, but visual distraction and clinician fatigue increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the animation cycles of multiple avatars by synchronizing them to a common rhythm. This is achieved by adjusting the animation parameters of individual avatars so that their repeating animations align in time, creating a unified visual pattern that reduces cognitive load while maintaining information delivery.
2Productivity
If multiple animated avatars are displayed simultaneously, then patient monitoring coverage is improved, but cognitive load on clinicians increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies periodic action by establishing a synchronized animation cycle where all avatars repeat their animations at regular intervals. This periodic synchronization creates predictable visual patterns that reduce the cognitive effort required to process multiple simultaneous animations, allowing clinicians to maintain monitoring coverage with lower cognitive load.
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AI summary
Proposed concepts thus aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods and systems pertaining to controlling a display of data. In particular, embodiments aim to provide a method for controlling a display of data by generating one display control signal which defines the display of an avatar of a first patient including a repeating animation, and generating another display control signal which defines the display of an avatar of a second patient using another repeating animation. In order to reduce the potential confusion and distraction of multiple animations (on the same or different display units), at least one of the display control signals is adapted to synchronize the (at least) two animations to one another. In this way, the synchronized animations are less confusing and distracting to look at, allowing a clinician to focus instead on the actual data that they are indicating.