Abstract
We aim at developing a surgical navigation system which can be controlled by an operating surgeon with his/her voice. This research improves the user interface of the system through implementing a feedback window which shows the speech-recognition state of the system to the surgeon. For more details, the feedback window provides information about whether voice-activated control is available as well as the result of speech recognition, as shown in the figure. We evaluated the proposed system through a clinical test, and then obtained some positivecomments on the usefulness of the feedback window. Therefore, we confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed system.
