Healthcare System Focusing on Emotional Aspects Using Augmented Reality - Implementation of Breathing Control Application in Relaxation Service

This chapter provides a review not only of classic literature on healthcare business and ethics, but also an introduction to the legal changes in the Greek healthcare system with ethical values on focus. A study examining in both a quantitative and qualitative way what the Greek healthcare experts think and feel about ethics and healthcare services presents the factors that shape attitudes towards ethical values from the viewpoint of the healthcare professionals. For this reason, 34 semi-structured interviews, accompanied by the administration of perceived cohesion scale, generalized immediacy scale, job affect scale, state anxiety inventory, Maslach burnout inventory, and the attitude towards business ethics questionnaire revealed that healthcare professionals do have knowledge of ethical values and moral responsibility, but no clear connections with specific emotional aspects were found. The chapter concludes with future directions on how business ethics can be further examined and applied.

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P300 Brain–Computer Interface-Based Drone Control in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21175765 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (17) ◽

pp. 5765

Author(s):

Soram Kim ◽

Seungyun Lee ◽

Hyunsuk Kang ◽

Sion Kim ◽

Minkyu Ahn

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Brain Computer Interface ◽

Self Control ◽

Computer Interface ◽

Head Mounted Displays ◽

Before And After ◽

Virtual And Augmented Reality ◽

Program Environment ◽

Control Application ◽

Drone Control

Since the emergence of head-mounted displays (HMDs), researchers have attempted to introduce virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) in brain–computer interface (BCI) studies. However, there is a lack of studies that incorporate both AR and VR to compare the performance in the two environments. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a BCI application that can be used in both VR and AR to allow BCI performance to be compared in the two environments. In this study, we developed an opensource-based drone control application using P300-based BCI, which can be used in both VR and AR. Twenty healthy subjects participated in the experiment with this application. They were asked to control the drone in two environments and filled out questionnaires before and after the experiment. We found no significant (p > 0.05) difference in online performance (classification accuracy and amplitude/latency of P300 component) and user experience (satisfaction about time length, program, environment, interest, difficulty, immersion, and feeling of self-control) between VR and AR. This indicates that the P300 BCI paradigm is relatively reliable and may work well in various situations.

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Comprehensive Analysis of Augmented Reality Technology in Modern Healthcare System

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications ◽

10.14569/ijacsa.2021.0120698 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Jinat Ara ◽

Faria Benta Karim ◽

Mohammed Saud A Alsubaie ◽

Yeasin Arafat Bhuiyan ◽

Muhammad Ismail Bhuiyan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Healthcare System ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Augmented Reality Technology

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Augmented reality in patient education and health literacy: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038416 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. e038416

Author(s):

Karthik Adapa ◽

Saumya Jain ◽

Richa Kanwar ◽

Tanzila Zaman ◽

Trusha Taneja ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Literacy ◽

Patient Education ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

Healthcare System ◽

Situated Learning ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Ethical Review ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Education And Health

BackgroundHealth literacy enables the patients in understanding the basic healthcare information and taking informed health decisions; thus, it is a desirable goal of any healthcare system. It increases patients’ adherence to treatment, improves the quality of care and eases the overall burden on the healthcare system. In recent years, technological solutions are being increasingly used in educating patients and achieving better health literacy. Augmented reality (AR) provides powerful, contextual and situated learning experiences and supplements the real world with virtual objects. AR could potentially be an effective learning methodology for the patients, thus, warranting a comprehensive overview of the current state of AR in patient education and health literacy.MethodsThe proposed scoping review will be based on the framework developed by Arksey and O’Malley, including the refinements suggested by Levac et al. A systematic search for references in the published literature will be conducted in nine research databases—Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, PsycInfo, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Association for Information Systems eLibrary (AISeL). The unpublished studies from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Conference Proceedings Citation Index and grey literature references obtained from a web search will also be included. Databases will be searched from inception to 14 January 2020. Two independent reviewers will screen the studies from the search results in two successive stages of title/abstract screening followed by full-text screening. Data variables will be extracted from the selected studies to characterise study design, type of AR technology employed and the relational factors affecting patient education. Lastly, key stakeholders will be consulted to gather their insights about the study findings.Ethics and disseminationThe results will be disseminated through stakeholder meetings and conference presentations. The data used are from publicly available secondary sources, so this study does not require ethical review.

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Design Features of Wearable AR Information Display for Surgery and Anesthesiology

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1541931213601131 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 571-575 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard A. del Rio ◽

Russell J. Branaghan ◽

Rob Gray

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Human Factors ◽

Operating Room ◽

Healthcare System ◽

Lower Cost ◽

Design Guidelines ◽

Medical Community ◽

Information Display ◽

The Past ◽

Wearable Medical

The medical community is constantly looking for technological solutions to reduce use-error and improve procedures to benefit the healthcare system worldwide. One area that has seen frequent improvement in the past few decades due to improved computing capabilities, lower cost and better displays has been augmented reality (AR) (Sauer, Khamene, Bascle, Vogt, & Rubino, 2002). In an operating room, surgeons and anesthesiologists are required to attend to a patient while receiving information from many different displays and instruments. This paper analyzes the human factors components of various AR devices and information display techniques to provide design guidelines for display configurations of wearable, medical AR devices that will improve upon current methods of information presentation in the operating room.

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