Surgical training using haptics over long internet distances.
This paper describes a collaborative surgical training prototype using haptics, which has been able to operate across the world. It allows two users to collaboratively manipulate a simulation of pliable human body organs, as well as guide each other's 'hands' over 22,000 km of internet connection. It uses a force impulse collection mechanism feeding haptics data to a single physics server program. The server runs a 'pseudo' physics model that is resilient to latency.
Gunn
Chris
C
CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. Chris.Gunn@csiro.au
Hutchins
Matthew
M
Adcock
Matt
M
Hawkins
Rhys
R
D001315:Australia; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000193:education*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D014584:User-Computer Interface