Lab: Collab Room
The Collab Room opened in 2005 and provided the HAVnet team with greatly improved ability to participate in and host video collaborative networked events and research. The room is critical for our testbed research and events. The design criteria that the team developed included the following requirements:
- Interactive space for multiple scenarios: on-going meetings with collaborators, demonstrations,remote or live, of digital anatomy, and surgical simulation.
- Excellent audio output from anywhere within the room
- Flexibility: ability to support multiple types of educational activity
- Ability to project both stereo and mono images simultaneously
- Normal or high-resolution videoconferencing
View a video. Around the room are mobile carts with state-of-the-art surgical simulators where residents and fellows evaluate modules on clipping, dissecting, grasping, and other basic surgical skills.
Key to the room's design, therefore, is flexibility so that the room can be set up and torn down for the variety of activities required for educational research.