A Strategy to Improve Information Display in Navigated Surgery
Frank Dylla, David M. Black, Thomas Barkowsky · CURAC · 2015
Frank Dylla studied computer science and psychology at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, where he received his diploma in 2001. Afterwards he deepened his research on cognitive robotics and intelligent behavior at the Knowledge-Based Systems Group at RWTH. In 2003 he moved to the University of Bremen and joined the Cognitive Systems group and the Collaborative Research Center on Spatial Cognition. By combining his expertise on reasoning about action and change with qualitative abstractions of spatial relations Dylla pursued the goal to more intuitive specifications of intelligent agent behavior. For this, besides the pragmatics of qualitative representations, he investigated theoretical properties of such representations and developed new ones to fit application needs. In 2008 he received his doctoral degree for his thesis “An agent control perspective on qualitative spatial reasoning,” which led to abstract domain specifications in, e.g., sea traffic, pedestrian navigation, or architecture. Since 2014 Dylla is a work group leader in the Creative Unit “Intra Operative Information—What surgeons need, when they need it” at the University of Bremen, investigating the role of abstractions in the medical domain and their exploitation for presenting to a surgeon the right information at the right time.