TY - GEN
T1 - A shared haptic virtual environment for dental surgical skill training
AU - Kaluschke, Maximilian
AU - Yin, Myat Su
AU - Haddawy, Peter
AU - Srimaneekarn, Natchalee
AU - Saikaew, Pipop
AU - Zachmann, Gabriel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Online learning has become an effective approach to reach students who may not be able to travel to university campuses for various reasons. Its use has also dramatically increased during the current COVID-19 pandemic with social distancing and lockdown requirements. But online education has thus far been primarily limited to teaching of knowledge and cognitive skills. There is yet almost no use of online education for teaching of physical clinical skills.In this paper, we present a shared haptic virtual environment for dental surgical skill training. The system provides the teacher and student with a shared environment containing a virtual dental station with patient, a dental drill controlled by a haptic device, and a drillable tooth. It also provides automated scoring of procedure outcomes. We discuss a number of optimizations used in order to provide the high-fidelity simulation and real-time performance needed for training of high-precision clinical skills. Since tactile, in particular kinaesthetic, sense is essential in carrying out many dental procedures, an important question is how to best teach this in a virtual environment. In order to support exploring this, our system includes three modes for transmitting haptic sensations from the user performing the procedure to the user observing.
AB - Online learning has become an effective approach to reach students who may not be able to travel to university campuses for various reasons. Its use has also dramatically increased during the current COVID-19 pandemic with social distancing and lockdown requirements. But online education has thus far been primarily limited to teaching of knowledge and cognitive skills. There is yet almost no use of online education for teaching of physical clinical skills.In this paper, we present a shared haptic virtual environment for dental surgical skill training. The system provides the teacher and student with a shared environment containing a virtual dental station with patient, a dental drill controlled by a haptic device, and a drillable tooth. It also provides automated scoring of procedure outcomes. We discuss a number of optimizations used in order to provide the high-fidelity simulation and real-time performance needed for training of high-precision clinical skills. Since tactile, in particular kinaesthetic, sense is essential in carrying out many dental procedures, an important question is how to best teach this in a virtual environment. In order to support exploring this, our system includes three modes for transmitting haptic sensations from the user performing the procedure to the user observing.
KW - Applied computing
KW - Collaborative and social computing
KW - Collaborative learning Applied computing
KW - Distance learning Human-centered computing
KW - Education
KW - Human-centered computing
KW - Interactive learning environments Applied computing - Education
KW - Visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105974065&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00069
DO - 10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00069
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85105974065
T3 - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2021
SP - 347
EP - 352
BT - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2021
Y2 - 27 March 2021 through 3 April 2021
ER -