Introduction to human-machine interface

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Article

Publication Date

12-19-2023

Publication Title

Human Machine Interface: Making Healthcare Digital

Abstract

Human-machine interface or HMI is quite omnipresent today due to its innumerable advantages in various fields from basic everyday vending machines to massive and complex industrial operations. Its only goal is to make machines more user-friendly and automatic so that they may be operated with a single-button press as opposed to having it done manually. It is incredibly helpful in some of the most significant healthcare and life sciences areas by allowing lucid and coherent communication between a human and a machine. By providing efficient patient monitoring systems and keeping track of some of the crucial factors like blood pressure, oxygen levels, ECG monitors, etc. They can aid in speeding up the recovery of patients. Another regular execution of HMI in medical systems is the display monitors in hospitals, interfaces of medical equipment, touch screen devices, etc. portraying the accurate levels of a patient's daily health status. One of the main advantages of HMI is its potential to bridge the communication gaps even when physicians could not treat patients during pandemics like COVID. It has provided us with systems that can interconnect monitors in hospitals, which feed into a single or wide range of computers to consistently be updated about a patient's doses, medicine timings, treatment plan, etc. The capability of software or hardware to be able to transmit appropriate information to an end user in an uncomplicated way is what makes HMI more personalized and handier to the entire population. In this chapter, we have introduced HMI along with its origins and history and highlighted some of its most significant uses in various industries. Applications from areas, such as medicine, manufacturing, automation and processing, biomedical engineering, robotic surgery, etc., have also been highlighted, illuminating the function that HMIs and AI play and demonstrate how they have been a consistent support in a multitude of fields.

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