Touchpad Telepresence Interface for Multi-Mode Remote 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 selection, vector-based driving, and joystick controls, ensuring secure connections and compliance with HIPAA standards, allowing for autonomous or semi-autonomous navigation within healthcare facilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If telemedicine technologies use basic control interfaces, then device simplicity is maintained, but the ability of healthcare practitioners to efficiently navigate and control telepresence devices is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface is segmented into multiple functional layers including map view layer, destination selection layer, vector-based control layer, and joystick control layer. Each layer provides specific navigation functions, allowing practitioners to choose the appropriate level of interaction complexity for different operational scenarios while maintaining overall system simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface dynamically adapts between different control modes based on operational needs. The system transitions between autonomous navigation mode, semi-autonomous vector-based mode, and manual joystick mode, allowing the complexity of the interface to match the complexity of the task being performed.
2Ease of operation
If telemedicine devices implement comprehensive graphical user interfaces with multiple navigation modes, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface serves multiple functions within a unified framework: it displays the environment via map view, selects destinations, generates navigation vectors, and provides joystick control. This multi-functional design consolidates what could be separate complex systems into a single versatile interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The graphical user interface acts as an intermediary layer between the practitioner and the telepresence device's navigation system. It translates various user inputs (destination selections, vector drawings, joystick movements) into standardized navigation commands, simplifying the interaction model while supporting multiple control paradigms.
3Productivity
If telemedicine devices enable autonomous or semi-autonomous navigation, then productivity is improved, but the need for comprehensive control interfaces increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating navigation vectors from selected destinations and autonomously executing navigation routes. This allows the telepresence device to move itself without continuous manual input, improving productivity while the interface maintains simplicity through high-level destination-based control options.
Data Source
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.