Touchpad Telepresence Interface for Remote Clinical Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telemedicine technologies lack effective graphical user interfaces and interactive controls for remote presence devices, limiting the ability of healthcare practitioners to efficiently navigate and control telepresence devices in healthcare settings, which is crucial for providing remote services and consultations.
Innovation Solution
The development of a remote presence interface (RPI) for portable electronic devices, enabling users to visually and interactively control telepresence devices through various navigation modes, including destination-based and map-based interfaces, allowing for manual, semi-autonomous, or autonomous navigation, while ensuring HIPAA compliance and incorporating features like video latency compensation and obstacle detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If telemedicine devices are equipped with navigation and control interfaces, then the ability to navigate and control telepresence devices is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface is segmented into multiple distinct modes including destination-based mode, map-based mode, and touchpad driving mode. Each mode handles specific navigation tasks independently, allowing the system to provide comprehensive navigation capabilities while keeping each individual interface mode simple and focused on its specific function.
Solution Approach 2:
The graphical user interface is designed to be universal across different telemedicine device types and operating systems. The same interface framework supports multiple navigation modes, different device configurations, and various user preferences, enabling a single interface design to serve multiple purposes and device types without requiring separate specialized interfaces for each.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple navigation modes are implemented, then the versatility of telepresence device control is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to increased complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between different navigation modes based on user selection, device state, and operational context. The interface adapts its behavior and available features according to the active navigation mode, providing a consistent and simple user experience in each mode while supporting multiple modes overall. The transition between modes is seamless and maintains operational simplicity.
3Productivity
If autonomous and semi-autonomous navigation features are added, then the productivity of remote healthcare services is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically navigating the telepresence device to selected destinations without requiring continuous manual control. The autonomous and semi-autonomous modes handle route planning, obstacle avoidance, and navigation execution in advance, freeing healthcare practitioners to focus on patient interaction while the system manages the physical navigation autonomously.
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AI summary
The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.