Lavie Golenberg
Papers
4
Total Citations
27
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4
About
Lavie Golenberg is a pioneering researcher in the field of robotic surgery, with a focus on human-robot interaction and surgical task optimization. Her work centers on understanding how surgeons interact with robotic systems to improve precision, efficiency, and autonomy in the operating room. Golenberg’s major contributions include identifying the surgeon’s "comfortable working envelope" and demonstrating how hand position and visual display configurations—such as single versus dual monitors—affect performance in telerobotic surgery. She also advanced the development of autonomous surgical robots by creating an integrated movement capture and control platform, and she conducted foundational task analyses to model and automatically identify elemental tasks in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. Her research, though early in its citation impact, has laid critical groundwork for improving surgeon-robot interfaces and enabling semi-autonomous procedures. Golenberg’s work is particularly notable for bridging engineering and clinical practice, offering data-driven insights that directly inform the design of safer, more intuitive robotic surgical systems.
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- 2Hand position effects on precision and speed in telerobotic surgery5 citations · 2007
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