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Changes in Visual Attention Allocation During Psychomotor Skill Training in Laparoscopic Surgery: A Longitudinal Eye Tracking Study

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines how visual attention evolves with performance and differs by learning rate in a simulated laparoscopic task. Eye-gaze data were collected from twenty-nine novices recruited to practice the peg transfer task in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery program until reaching proficiency or completing six training sessions. Results suggested that participants increasingly directed their gaze toward future target locations as their completion time decreased. Participants who became proficient sooner exhibited earlier and more frequent use of feedforward gaze behaviors compared to those who took longer or never reached proficiency after six sessions. These results suggest that developing proactive visual control may be critical for efficient psychomotor skill acquisition.

Source: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

DOI: 10.1177/10711813251364793

Authors: Shiyu Deng, Jinwoo Oh, Sarah Henrickson Parker, Nathan Lau

Institutions: Virginia Tech, Carilion Clinic

Language: English

Topic: Surgical Simulation and Training

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Collaborative Research: SCH: CLINICAL ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT THROUGH HUMAN-AI TEAMING (CAPE-HAT)