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The SimMed experience: medical education on interactive tabletops

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We present SimMed, a novel tool for medical education that allows medical students to diagnose and treat a simulated patient in real-time. The students assume the roles of doctors, collaborating as they interact with the patient. To achieve immersion and support complex interactions for gaining procedural knowledge, the hybrid user interface combines elements of real-time Virtual Reality (VR) with multitouch input. On the one hand, SimMed features a simulated, life-sized patient that is rendered and reacts in real-time. On the other hand, a more conventional touch input interface allows access to a large variety of medical procedures and tools.

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  • (2017)Virtual Reality for User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Touch-free Interaction Techniques for Navigating Medical Images in the Operating RoomProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3027063.3053173(2001-2009)Online publication date: 6-May-2017
  • (2016)The Effects of Changing Projection Geometry on Perception of 3D Objects on and Around TabletopsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/284508123:2(1-54)Online publication date: 28-May-2016

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ITS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces
October 2013
514 pages
ISBN:9781450322713
DOI:10.1145/2512349
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  1. collaboration
  2. education
  3. interactive surfaces
  4. learning
  5. medicine
  6. multitouch
  7. procedural knowledge
  8. tabletop

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ITS '13: The ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
October 6 - 9, 2013
St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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ITS '13 Paper Acceptance Rate 35 of 121 submissions, 29%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 119 of 418 submissions, 28%

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  • (2017)Virtual Reality for User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Touch-free Interaction Techniques for Navigating Medical Images in the Operating RoomProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3027063.3053173(2001-2009)Online publication date: 6-May-2017
  • (2016)The Effects of Changing Projection Geometry on Perception of 3D Objects on and Around TabletopsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/284508123:2(1-54)Online publication date: 28-May-2016

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