Andrius Budrionis*, Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Tromsø, Norway Knut Magne Augestad, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Tromsø, Norway Hiten Rh Patel, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Virtual Surgical Skills Simulation Centre, Institute of Cancer, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Tromsø, Norway Johan Gustav Bellika, Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Tromsø, Norway Track: Research Presentation Topic: Human-Computer Interface (HCI) Design Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2013-09-25

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Background
An increasing quantity of research in the domain of telemedicine show a growing popularity and acceptance of care over distance systems among both clinicians and patients. We focus on telementoring solutions, developed for providing remote guidance to less experienced surgeons. Telestration is often regarded as an extra functionality of some telementoring systems. However, we advocate that telestration must be viewed as a core feature of telementoring due to its advantages.
Objective
To analyse and define concepts, parameters and measurement procedures to evaluate the impact of using telestration while telementoring.
Methods
A systematic review of research dealing with telestration during remote guidance sessions was performed by querying three major online research databases (MEDLINE, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)) using a predefined set of keywords (“laparoscopy”, “annotate”, “telestrate”, “telestration”, “annotation”, “minimally invasive”, and “MIS”).
Results
The keyword-based search identified 117 papers. Following the guidelines for performing a systematic review, only 8 publications were considered relevant for final study. Moreover, a gap in research defining the impacts of telestration during telementoring was identified. To fill this niche, a framework for analysing, reporting and measuring the impacts of telestration was proposed.
Conclusions
The presented framework lays the basics for the structured analysis and reporting of telestration applied to telementoring systems. It is a first step towards building an evidence knowledge base documenting the advantages of live video content annotation and supporting the presented connections between the concepts.