The need to touch medical virtual environments?

Bello, F; Coles, T; Gould, D; Hughes, CJ; John, N; Vidal, F; Watt, S

Abstract

Haptics technologies are frequently used in virtual
environments to allow participants to touch virtual objects.
Medical applications are no exception and a wide variety of
commercial and bespoke haptics hardware solutions have
been employed to aid in the simulation of medical procedures.
Intuitively the use of haptics will improve the training of the
task. However, little evidence has been published to prove
that this is indeed the case. In the paper we summarise the
available evidence and use a case study from interventional
radiology to discuss the question of how important is it to
touch medical virtual environments?

Citation

Bello, F., Coles, T., Gould, D., Hughes, C., John, N., Vidal, F., & Watt, S. (2010, March). The need to touch medical virtual environments?. Presented at Workshop of Medical Virtual Environments at IEEE VR 2010, Waltham, MA, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: Workshop of Medical Virtual Environments at IEEE VR 2010
• Conference Location: Waltham, MA, USA
• Start Date: Mar 20, 2010
• End Date: Mar 26, 2010
• Publication Date: Mar 26, 2010
• Deposit Date: Feb 18, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 18, 2019
• Related Public URLs: http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2010/
• Additional Information: Event Type : Workshop