Björn Helgeson and Anna Movin
Research and new innovations in the field of media technology brings new possibilities to the Swedish healthcare system. Representatives of these two worlds are Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and the European Union-funded research group Mediating Presence. Examined in this report are five telemedicine scenarios from Karolinska and three system concepts. The three concepts are: Hydra, the Mediated Sketching Table and Video Orchestration, all distance communication-related research projects from the Mediating Presence group. The purpose of this report is to explore the potential of these systems to increase task performance in these healthcare scenarios.
Through literature studies in presence research, along with interviews and observations, information is gathered about the scenarios and system concepts. On this basis, a framework is developed to analyze the potential of implementing these systems in the hospital scenarios. The results from this method are that two of the system concepts, Hydra and Video Orchestration, are interesting for further investigation in a few particular cases. To fully grasp the advantages and disadvantages of each implementation, further studies, including user tests, need to be conducted.