Full citation
Brouwer, I., MacLean, K., Hodgson, A. (2003). "Price-Quality Trade-Offs in Haptic Interfaces for Simulation of Laparoscopic Surgery" (Poster). Poster presentation at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, January 22-25 2003, Newport Beach, California USA.
Abstract
This project aims to determine quantitatively which haptic
(force-feedback) device design parameters have the
most influence on surgical performance, and how much
they can be degraded before a significant deviation in
surgical performance can be observed.
From this we can provide a functional specification for the
most economical device sufficient for the particular
laparoscopic tasks studied.
In the longer term, we are seeking to generalize our results
so that we can infer design specifications for interfaces for
arbitrary environments from a small set of standard tasks.
(force-feedback) device design parameters have the
most influence on surgical performance, and how much
they can be degraded before a significant deviation in
surgical performance can be observed.
From this we can provide a functional specification for the
most economical device sufficient for the particular
laparoscopic tasks studied.
In the longer term, we are seeking to generalize our results
so that we can infer design specifications for interfaces for
arbitrary environments from a small set of standard tasks.
SPIN Authors
Year Published
2003