CRI: IAD: A Real-Time Haptic Immersive Virtual Environment (RT-HIVE)

我们的目标是创建和验证的范例的实时触觉沉浸式虚拟环境（RT-HIVE）作为一个场地，以扩大，协助，培训和监测人类的感觉运动技能/优势，使用的情况下，解剖解剖训练的虚拟尸体解剖模拟器（VCAS）的研究。感觉？解剖/外科手术期间组织的运动和响应需要开发新的技术和方法，并进一步发展工程/计算领域的知识，包括：（i）用于增强触觉用户界面的新颖设计和控制架构;（ii）用于与不规则、不均匀和非线性生物材料进行实时工具交互的分布式架构/算法的进展;以及（iii）验证用于感觉运动训练的透明监测和定量评估协议。更广泛的影响：这种VCAS模拟器与系统教育计划的整合将彻底改变下一代医疗保健专业人员的培训（从见习护士/医学生到专科外科医生/病理学家）。我们还将VCAS视为研究实验室、教室、应用设置或与博物馆展示相结合的重要教学和协作工具。最后，架构，算法和验证的努力将是非常宝贵的，在其他这样的虚拟现实（VR）为基础的模拟器的发展。

Our goal is to create and validate the paradigm of a Real-Time Haptic Immersive Virtual Environment (RT-HIVE) as a venue to expand, assist, train and monitor human sensorimotor skills/strengths, using the case-study of a Virtual Cadaveric Anatomic Simulator (VCAS) for anatomical dissection training.Intellectual Merit: To realistically mimic the ?feel? and response of tissues during dissection/surgery requires the development of new techniques and methods and furthering the state-of-knowledge in the engineering/computational domains including: (i) novel design- and control-architectures for enhanced Haptic User Interfaces; (ii) advances in distributed architectures/algorithms for real-time tool-interactions with irregular, inhomogeneous and nonlinear biological materials; and (iii) validation of transparent monitoring and quantitative assessment protocols for sensorimotor training. Broader Impact: The integration of such a VCAS simulator with systematic education programs will revolutionize the training of the next generation of health-care professionals (from novitiate nurses/ medical students to specialist surgeons/pathologists). We also see the VCAS as an important teaching and collaboration tool in research labs, classrooms, application settings or in conjunction with museum displays. Finally, the architecture, algorithms and validation efforts would be invaluable in the development of other such Virtual Reality (VR) based simulators.