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Medical interface research at the HIT Lab

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The Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) is a multi-disciplinary research and development lab whose work centers on novel approaches to human interface technology. Lab researchers represent a wide range of disciplines from across the University of Washington campus, including engineering, medicine, education, social sciences, architecture, and the design arts. We describe here a representative sampling of past and current HIT Lab research and development activities related to medicine, including virtual reality and augmented/mixed reality applications for direct patient therapy, tools for basic medical education and procedure training, novel approaches to medical image acquisition and display, and new visualization methods in medical informatics.

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  1. Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Suzanne Weghorst, Eric Seibel, Peter Oppenheimer, Hunter Hoffman, Brian Schowengerdt & Thomas A. Furness III

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Weghorst, S., Seibel, E., Oppenheimer, P. et al. Medical interface research at the HIT Lab. Virtual Reality 12, 201–214 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-008-0107-9

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