title: Evaluation methods of a middleware for networked surgical simulations.
abstract: Distributed surgical virtual environments are desirable since they substantially extend the accessibility of computational resources by network communication. However, network conditions critically affects the quality of a networked surgical simulation in terms of bandwidth limit, delays, and packet losses, etc. A solution to this problem is to introduce a middleware between the simulation application and the network so that it can take actions to enhance the user-perceived simulation performance. To comprehensively assess the effectiveness of such a middleware, we propose several evaluation methods in this paper, i.e., semi-automatic evaluation, middleware overhead measurement, and usability test.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
authors.forename: Qingbo
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Liberatore
authors.forename: M Cenk
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Cavuşoğlu
authors.forename: Youngjin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yoo
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004501:Education, Medical; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D012984:Software; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface