Dual Eye-tracking for Measuring Surgical Team Cognition

Team collaboration is important for performing image-guided surgery, including laparoscopic surgery. Therefore, training
healthcare providers in a team setting is critical for the success of laparoscopic procedures.
To improve the quality of any team training program, we need to develop a reliable assessment instrument to measure team
performance. The currently available team assessment tools are mostly subjective and indirect. What we need is to find a way to
directly evaluate team cognition, the psychomotor foundation behind any team performance.
We have used eye-tracking technology to assess the cognition of an individual surgeon. In this study, we plan to develop and test
a dual eye-tracking technology and further investigate whether eye-tracking can be used to measure team cognition between two
surgeons in a laparoscopic surgery. The task goal will be fulfilled by building the collaboration with scientists and surgeons in the
Institute of Image Guided Surgery (IHU-Strasbourg) in France. One intern (Yao Zhang, PhD student) will be supported for 12
weeks by GRA fund.

Faculty Supervisor:

Bin Zheng

Student:

Partner:

IHU Strasbourg

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program: