The Haptic Kymograph: A tele-haptic interface for diagnostics of human pulse
Goal
Kymograph is the art of measuring pressure-based attributes, such as pulse and blood pressure. The Haptic Kymograph is an innovative tele-haptic interface for capturing and transmitting human pulse for medical diagnostics. A user can see, hear and touch the pulse of a patient in a remote place in real-time.
Abstract
The Haptic Kymograph is one of the advanced haptically-enhanced virtual reality medical applications. It transforms human vital signs into sensible, scalable and ubiquitous medium so that a user can easily comprehend subtle and ambiguous signals. The project includes current issues and challenges of tele-haptics, such as the data acquisition, digitalizing, network transmission of pulsation data, and synchronization and replication of real-time haptic sensation. The research also spans to the human factor studies often required in sophisticated man-machine interfaces, such as multivariate environment and haptic distortion. This innovative technology has immediate applications in Tele-medicine and training.
The technology of the project contributes to manifesting the ambiguities of vital signs in a human body for more precise diagnostics. This technology is easily accessible to doctors as well as non-specialists. Doctors can reach understandable and agreeable diagnostics even with weak and hardly recognizable vital signs. Moreover this technology will help people living in remote areas where there are no medical hospitals. Vital signs can be captured at tele-medicine center and via ubiquitous network transmitted to a specialist located at a major medical facility.
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Dr. T. Kesavadas (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
Youngseok Kim (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
