An Enquiry into VR Interface Design for Medical Training: VR Augmented Anatomy Tutorials for Breast Cancer

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An Enquiry into VR Interface Design for Medical Training: VR Augmented Anatomy Tutorials for Breast Cancer

Anderson, P., Charrissis, V, Ward, B, Naef, M, Rowley, D and Brady, L (2008) An Enquiry into VR Interface Design for Medical Training: VR Augmented Anatomy Tutorials for Breast Cancer. The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality. Conference, San Jose CA , ETATS-UNIS (2008), 6804 (680404). Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Bellingham, WA, ETATS-UNIS (1981) (Revue) SPIE, Bellingham, Wash., ETATS-UNIS (2008) (Monographie), San Jose, California, USA. ISBN 978-0-8194-6976-2 ; 0-8194-6976-9

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Anderson, P., Charrissis, V, Ward, B, Naef, M, Rowley, D and Brady, L

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This paper presents an initial study exploring and evaluating a novel, accessible and user-centred interface developed for a VR Medical training environment. In particular, the proposed system facilitates a detailed 3D information exchange, with the aim of improving the user's internal 3D understanding and visualisation of complex anatomical inter-relationships. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed VR teaching method we developed a female 3D model under the guidance of Consultant Breast surgeons with particular emphasis given on the axilla section. In turn we commenced a comparative study between PBL tutorials augmented with VR and the contemporary teaching techniques involving twelve participants. Overall the paper outlines the development process of the proposed VR Medical Training environment, discusses the results from the comparative study, and offers suggestions for further research and a tentative plan for future work.

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Additional papers: ‘An Evaluation of Prototype VR Medical Environment: Applied Surgical Anatomy Training for Malignant Breast Disease’ International Conference of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16th (MMVR 16th), 30 Jan - 01 Feb 2008, Long Beach California, USA Surgical Education: applied Virtual Anatomy: Can Virtual Reality Augment Postgraduate Anatomy Teaching? , in Proceedings of the Day Of Surgery Conference, Edinburgh, UK (2008).

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Anatomy, Breast, Breast Anatomy & Histology, Breast Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms Surgery, Computer Simulation, Female, General Surgery, General Surgery Education, Humans, Models, User Computer Interface

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School of Innovation and Technology

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