Surgical training using haptics over long internet distances

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004:98:121-3.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Australia
  • Cholecystectomy / education*
  • Education, Medical / methods*
  • Humans
  • Internet*
  • User-Computer Interface*