Dr Patient interaction - “Looking at each other” from video

Prof. Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Prof Ilan Shimshoni

The Problem - Establishing good communication, either verbal or nonverbal, with patient is an essential and important component to develop a good doctor-patient relation Face-to-face interaction (including facial expressions and eye contact), expressive touch, body language, paralinguistics (vocal communication which is discrete from actual language), interpersonal proximity, physical appearance, and eloquent gestures all make verbal conversation more expressive and meaningful (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2010.12.002)

The Solution- We started with studying the eye contact. For that purpose, a mechanism for determining eye contact was developed. The system shows success in sample cases.