Da Vinci 5 Multi Port
My work on the Da Vinci 5 multi-port, the latest release of Intuitive’s surgery robots, focused on giving the surgeon more control and better situational awareness mid-procedure. The Da Vinci 5 vision system provides the most realistic 3D images with superior color and resolution. Its immersive, reengineered console offers a broader range of motion and ergonomic settings, enhancing surgeon comfort and autonomy. Increased computing power enables intelligent component integration with head-in console control, allowing surgeons to manage all surgical components directly from their console, thereby reducing the care team's workload. This design supports knowledge transfer and learnability, making it easier for current users and encouraging greater adoption of the Da Vinci system.
“A technical system is intuitively usable if the users’ subconscious application of prior knowledge leads to effective integration ”
— Diana Loeffler
Design Principles
Using design principles to align perception with UI element placement in a heads-up display ensures that critical information is easily and intuitively accessible, reducing cognitive load, minimizing distractions, and enhancing overall user experience and operational efficiency.
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UI Design System
Design system components were used to create more intuitive instruments to enhance surgeons' abilities, streamline support strategies, and improve efficiency and effectiveness. We aimed to reduce OR times, decrease surgeons' fatigue, minimize training needs, and increase the standardization of repeatable good outcomes in surgeries.
Sound Design System
To cut through OR noise and avoid alarm fatigue, a sound redesign is needed, utilizing the brain's faster recognition speed of 0.025s for sound compared to 0.2s for light or touch, by exploring wave parameters to convey meaning, sound harmonics to prevent masking, and 3D directional sound to disambiguate instrument locations.
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Da Vinci 5 Tones Exploration Samples. We aimed to create a cohesive soundscape where every sound was part of the same family, reinforcing the Intuitive brand tone and ensuring the meaning was clear and understandable.
Haptic Design System
Precision dexterity is one of the most significant advantages of the Da Vinci system. Still, the combination of multiple degrees of freedom with instrument modality and function switches creates a wide array of capabilities that can be difficult to master due to the sheer amount of variation, raising the threshold for instrument mastery. However, using a design system for haptics with predetermined, learnable components and functionality allows for the intuitive transfer of knowledge from one instrument to another, thereby increasing learnability.
Concept Work
Using a design thinking process to create new medical products ensures they are user-centered and address real-world healthcare challenges, whereas relying solely on engineering focuses primarily on technical feasibility and performance.