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Table 1 Summary of reviewed studies

From: Inattentional blindness in medicine

Study

Study type

Total sample size

Noticing rates by condition:

Dixon et al. (2013)

Augmented reality

32

Overall (noticed something unusual): 12.5% (4/32)

Standard endoscopy: 70.6% (12/17) (either object); 41.2% (7/17) (screw); 41.2% (7/17) (complication)

Augmented reality: 6.7% (1/15) (either object); 6.7% (1/15) (screw); 0% (0/15) (complication)

Dixon et al. (2014)

Augmented reality

50

Endoscopic with AR Navigation: 28% (7/25) (noticed something unusual); 60% (15/25) (screw); 0% (0/25) (complication)

AR as a single display: 16% (4/25) (noticed something unusual); 32% (8/25) (screw); 4% (1/25) (complication)

Hughes-Hallett et al. (2015)

Augmented reality

73

Wireframe overlay: 29% (7/24) (swab); 92% (22/24) (suture)

Solid overlay: 20% (5/25) (swab); 88% (22/25) (suture)

No overlay: 29% (7/24) (swab); 92% (22/24) (suture)

High load: 8% (3/39) (swab); 90% (35/39) (suture)

Low load: 47% (16/34) (swab); 91% (31/34) (suture)

Marcus et al. (2015)

Augmented reality

50

No image guidance: 90% (9/10)

Triplanar display: 40% (4/10)

Always-on solid: 20% (2/10)

Always-on wire mesh: 40% (4/10)

On-demand inverse realism: 40% (4/10)

Ann-Christin et al. (2018)

Radiology

51

(50%) density condition: 9.8% (5/51)

(75%) density condition: 19.6% (10/51)

(100%) density condition: 19.6% (10/51)

de Cassai et al. (2021)

Radiology

699

4.9% (34/699)

Drew et al. (2013) Study 1

Radiology

24

Radiologists: 16.7% (4/24)

Drew et al. (2013) Study 2

Radiology

25

Novices: 0% (0/25)

Williams et al. (2021) Study 1

Radiology

50

Breast cancer: 34% (17/50)

Lymphadenopathy: 70% (35/50)

Williams et al. (2022)

Radiology

74

Noticing rates not reported

Al-Moteri et al. (2018)

Other

40

65% (26/40)

Greig et al. (2014)

Other

142

Overall: 23.9% (34/142)

No training: 19.6% (11/56)

Advanced: 23.3% (10/43)

Expert: 30.2% (13/43)

Ho et al. (2017)

Other

77

Head movement: 66.2% (51/77)

Leaky CVC: 32.5% (25/77)

Pandit et al. (2022)

Other

28

Noticing rates not reported

Park and Kim (2021)

Other

47

Noticing rates not reported

  1. For Hughes-Hallett et al. (2015), subjects in each overlay group were assigned to one of two additional conditions (high or low load)