Multi-session VR medical training - The HOPS simulator

Crossan, A., Brewster, S.A., Reid, S. and Mellor, D. (2002) Multi-session VR medical training - The HOPS simulator. In: 16th British HCI Group Annual Conference, London, England, 2-6 September 2002, pp. 213-225. ISBN 1852336595

Abstract

Virtual reality medical simulators offer the potential to provide a training environment for a novice doctor to practice skills without risk to patients. However, these simulators must be shown to provide learning before they are used in a medical training environment.This paper describes the first stage of an experiment to assess the effectiveness of the Glasgow Horse Ovary Palpation Simulator for training novice veterinary students.The performance on the simulator of a group of participants has been measured over multiple training sessions. The results show that over 4 training sessions,participants improved in their accuracy in diagnosis on the simulator while reducing the time required to make the diagnosis.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: haptic interaction, force feedback, virtual reality training, medical simulation
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Crossan, Dr Andrew and Brewster, Professor Stephen
• Authors: Crossan, A., Brewster, S.A., Reid, S., and Mellor, D.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• ISBN: 1852336595
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2002 Springer
• First Published: First published in People and computers XVI: memorable yet invisible: proceedings of HCI 2002
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with the permission of the publisher