Milestones

2003-2004
Rearching & setting up the Collab Room with various surgical simulators and videoconferencing capabilities.

Event: Haptic Audio-Visual Interaction across the Pacific with CSIRO.

2004-2005
Upgrade and extend capabilities of SPRING, an interactive surgical simulator with haptic capability.

Event: Transmitting Stereo Video from Stanford OR to Conference in San Diego

2005-2006
Event: Transmitting Stereo Video from Stanford OR to Australia

Components of Clinical Skills Testbed

Mission: To demonstrate and evaluate interactive surgical training through the use of stereo video and surgical simulations.

Goals:

1. Learn the outcomes for using high bandwidth medical applications.
2. Break new ground in networked haptics technologies.
3. Develop an understanding of event production.

Strategy:

• Develop and field test interactive, haptic surgical simulator.
• Schedule learning events using new technologies; improve event performance and capability with each occurrence
• Identify a methodology for recording preparation and event description that supports event improvement

Criteria for an event:

• Use high bandwidth network and new technologies
• Have a learning component
• Include participants (students, conference attendees, public) who are not HAVnet researchers
• Build on experience from past events