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Author
David J Gilmore & Ashleigh Shier
Abstract
This paper summarises the activities required and complexities encountered while undertaking the usability engineering process for a large, complex, and new-to-the-world medical device – namely Elekta Unity, the first high field Magnetic Resonance (MR)-Linac. The early design-oriented activities have been presented previously, but the usability engineering has predominantly taken place since then. The main challenges lie in the sheer complexity of such a device – combining two potentially harmful technologies into one, in a usage context with many users with different roles to play, and where different components may have their own regulatory documentation.