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SUMMARY:Bridging the Haptic Divide: A Human Factors Analysis of TeleHealth
  Palpation Systems
DESCRIPTION:Gwilym Couch, Morgan Sinko, Thomas Ferris, Austin Taylor, and 
 Jonathan Harris (Texas A&M University)\n\nAdvances in telehealth have impr
 oved access to care. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth tech
 nologies now support interactions between physicians and patients that are
  of sufficient quality for meaningful clinical evaluations. However, curre
 nt telehealth technologies lack the ability to convey important haptic cue
 s that are available with in-person medical evaluation. This is exemplifie
 d by physical examination of patients by “palpating” various body location
 s, such as the neck, to find important potential indicators of disease. \n
 \nThe following poster highlights collaborative research among medical pro
 fessionals, designers of new haptic sensing and display technologies, and 
 human factors engineers in the development and evaluation of a new “telepa
 lpation” system. This research explored the "interactive testbed” that ill
 ustrates a potential collaborative workflow between a nurse physically co-
 located with a patient, and a remote physician. The nurse palpates the pat
 ient while wearing sensorized gloves. Video and audio feeds and data captu
 red by these gloves are relayed to the doctor, providing haptic feedback t
 hrough a display which mimics the forces and motion of the nurse. Diagnost
 ic performance, time to diagnosis, and confidence were assessed with hapti
 c qualities of the palpated tissue such as lump characteristics, developed
  communication strategies between collaborating nurse and doctor, and fami
 liarity between collaborators.\n\n
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