ENHANCING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-BASED SURGICAL TEAMWORK TRAINING WITH NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Stefan Marks, Burkhard Wünsche, John Windsor

2009

Abstract

Virtual reality simulations for training surgical skills are increasingly used in medical education and have been shown to improve patient outcome. While advances in hardware and simulation techniques have resulted in many commercial applications for training technical skills, most of these simulators are extremely expensive and do not consider non-technical skills like teamwork and communication. This is a major drawback since recent research suggests that a large percentage of mistakes in clinical settings are due to communication problems. In addition, training teamwork can also improve the efficiency of a surgical team and as such reduce costs and workload. We present an inexpensive camera-based system for capturing aspects of non-verbal communication of users participating in virtual environment-based teamwork simulations. This data can be used for the enhancement of virtual-environment-based simulations to increase the realism and effectiveness of team communication.

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in Harvard Style

Marks S., Wünsche B. and Windsor J. (2009). ENHANCING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-BASED SURGICAL TEAMWORK TRAINING WITH NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-67-8, pages 361-366. DOI: 10.5220/0001793703610366

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp09,
author={Stefan Marks and Burkhard Wünsche and John Windsor},
title={ENHANCING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-BASED SURGICAL TEAMWORK TRAINING WITH NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={361-366},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001793703610366},
isbn={978-989-8111-67-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - ENHANCING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-BASED SURGICAL TEAMWORK TRAINING WITH NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
SN - 978-989-8111-67-8
AU - Marks S.
AU - Wünsche B.
AU - Windsor J.
PY - 2009
SP - 361
EP - 366
DO - 10.5220/0001793703610366