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Training on Laparoscopic Suturing by Means of a Serious Game

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013 (ICCSA 2013)

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Serious games usually refer to games that are used for training, advertising, simulation, or education and that provide a high fidelity simulation of particular environments and situations. Serious games are starting to be also employed in surgery-based training applications. This paper presents a serious game for training on suturing in laparoscopic surgery. In particular, it is focused on the physical modeling of the virtual environment and on the definition of a set of parameters used to assess the level of skills developed by the trainees. A pair of haptic devices has been utilized in order to simulate the manipulation of the surgical instruments.

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  1. Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

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    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Partimento di Scienze e Tecnologie per LAgricoltura, le Foreste, la Natura e lEnergia, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, snc, 01100, Viterbo, Italy

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    Osvaldo Gervasi

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De Paolis, L.T. (2013). Training on Laparoscopic Suturing by Means of a Serious Game. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013. ICCSA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7971. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39637-3_49

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