title: A surgical and fine-motor skills trainer for everyone? Touch and force-feedback in a virtual reality environment for surgical training.
abstract: Access to the laboratory component of a class is limited by resources, while lab training is not currently possible for distance learning. To overcome the problem a solution is proposed to enable hands-on, interactive, objectively scored and appropriately mentored learning in a widely accessible environment. The proposed solution is the Virtual-Reality Motor-Skills trainer to teach basic fine-motor skills using Haptics for touch and feel interaction as well as a 3D virtual reality environment for visualization.
authors.affiliation: caschwan@hawaii.edu.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aschwanden
authors.forename: Andrei
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sherstyuk
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Burgess
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009048:Motor Skills; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000193:education*; D014110:Touch; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface