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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik

This Dagstuhl Seminar will gather experts in the areas of XR Technologies (Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, and Augmented Reality), Conversational avatar assistants, UX: Gaze Control and Visual Attention, and Data Privacy and Security fields to delve into the intricacies, innovations, and transformative potential of telemedicine. This esteemed congregation should foster a dynamic exchange of ideas, insights, and breakthroughs that will redefine the landscape of healthcare delivery.

Telemedicine, eXtended Reality, eye tracking, collaborative Virtual Environments, Avatars

Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Virtual Reality,    Robotics, Automation & Mechatronics

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

Artificial intelligence has made tremendous strides across many spheres of life, however deploying this technology in safety critical domains remains challenging. This seminar focuses on clinical practice where data-driven models can streamline the work of healthcare professionals and democratise access to personalised medicine, thus have lasting positive impact on society, but also where deploying such tools without adequate foresight and safeguards can be perilous. This duality – anticipated benefits that may come along with unintended consequences – requires new technologies to be thoroughly vetted, e.g., with clinical trials and medical certification processes, before they can be deployed to avoid any harmful fallout. However, fulfilling such regulatory requirements is a lengthy and complex process plagued with many challenges, hence while prototype systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, they often remain indefinitely designated as research tools that can be used exclusively for research purposes. Their lacklustre adoption is compounded by pervasive reproducibility issues; history of unsafe systems being deployed prematurely; scarce data that are inherently private, difficult to collect or share, and often riddled with numerous biases; and prevalence of automation promises that never come to fruition. Such hurdles result in healthcare remaining one of the least digitised spheres of life.

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

The first goal of this Dagstuhl Seminar is to survey existing uses of any kind of XR technologies in the OR. More importantly, we will seek to foster and create ideas for novel research on using XR in the OR. This should lead to novel use cases of the technology, novel research questions, and an agenda for research on XR in the OR for the next 5 years. As one of the tangible outcomes, we plan to develop a position paper outlining this agenda during the seminar, and submit it to a major journal. These goals will be achieved by bringing together researchers from all sub-fields of XR (VR, AR, sound and haptic rendering, new materials, and other kinds of mixed reality), along with practitioners (surgeons) from different medical areas, in order to bring the practical perspective of surgery to the seminar.

Implementation and Applications of Artificial Intelligence,    Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Virtual Reality

Applied Market Information LLC – AMI

A dedicated platform for all key stakeholders in the medical tubing industry, this event brings together device OEMs, contract manufacturers, tubing producers, compounders, materials experts, and machinery suppliers. This creates a collaborative environment to explore the key challenges faced by the industry.