IEEE Virtual Reality 2010

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Background

Today, more than at any time in the history of medicine, there is unrelenting pressure for faster, more efficient and cost effective training. Patient safety and evidenced based practice have been highlighted as key issues to be addressed by medical process and technology. Some of this is driving surgical management towards novel minimally invasive  approaches, in turn raising further challenges of training the increasingly complex skills that are a part of such innovative practices. Safe, effective training of the next generation healthcare professional can benefit by taking advantage of new technologies and approaches emerging from computer science, perceptual psychology and other related disciplines. In particular, we hypothesise that a completely virtual patient with variable and configurable pathology will be substituted for a real patient and used as new media during (at least part of) the learning process for all medical didactics, interactions and procedures.  There are many research problems to solve, however, including realistic modelling and simulation of physiological processes, human perception issues, time-efficient segmentation and effective use of haptics.

This half day workshop will demonstrate the current state-of-the-art in medical virtual environments and identify future technology directions.

Programme (pdf version)

Publication

Workshop Programme Committee

• Michael Aratow, Web3D Consortium Medical Working Group, CA
• Nick Avis, Cardiff University, UK
• Dirk Bartz, Universität Leipzig, Germany
• Fernando Bello, Imperial College, UK
• Daniel Evestedt, SenseGraphics, Sweden
• Derek Gould, Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK
• Henry Fuchs, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
• Nigel W. John, Bangor University, UK
• Nicholas Polys, Virginia Tech, USA
• Wayne Warren, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Simon Watt, School of Psychology, Bangor University

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