Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 78 | HCESC Sponsored Comprehensive Medical Tool Attachment for VR |
Corey Zeinstra Mingrui Zhou Vignesh Gopal |
Mengze Sha | design_document2.pdf design_document3.pdf final_paper1.pdf proposal1.pdf |
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| The medical simulation training world is growing fast and using VR to train doctors and other medical professionals is a worthwhile endeavor. However doctors train a lot based on finger dexterity and hand motions and off the shelf VR controllers are ill equipped to train medical professionals. Doctors have complained about these controllers feeling alien and the fact that a VR controller feels nothing like syringe or an ambu bag or a laryngoscope takes away from the quality and immersiveness of the VR simulations. Our project would be to create an attachment that could go on numerous medical tools, like a syringe or ampu bag, and would be able to not only track the basic position and rotation but go further and track linear motion, or barometric pressure, or force and acceleration, and then relay that information into a VR training application. For example a user would be in VR and would be able to pick up and track a syringe. The syringe would be mapped into VR through a series of sensors and then the users sight and feel would match up. The syringe would be able to track how much the user pushed on it and how much fluid would be injected in order to get a more accurate and immersive feel of the procedure. The actual attachment we create would have a suite of sensors so that it could be placed on a number of common medical tools and map all of their specific important information into VR. While at a medical conference recently some of the people at HCESC got numerous complaints about the current controller interface for their applications and none of the other groups presenting seemed to have a good solution so I believe this idea is both novel and unique. | |||||