Asli Kumcu, Lotte Vermeulen, Shirley A Elprama, Pieter Duysburgh, Ljiljana Platiša, Yves Van Nieuwenhove, Nele Van De Winkel, An Jacobs, Jan Van Looy, Wilfried Philips
BACKGROUND: Few telesurgery studies assess the impact of latency on user experience, low latencies are often not studied despite evidence of negative effects, and some studies recruit inexperienced subjects instead of surgeons without evidence that latency affects both groups similarly. METHODS: Fifteen trainees and fourteen laparoscopic surgeons conducted two tasks on a laparoscopy home-trainer at six latencies below 200 milliseconds (ms). Completion time and usability (perceived awareness of latency, inefficiency, disturbance, adaptability, and impact on patient safety) were measured...
July 3, 2016: International Journal of Medical Robotics + Computer Assisted Surgery: MRCAS