VISIO-HAPTIC DEFORMABLE MODEL FOR HAPTIC DOMINANT PALPATION SIMULATOR

• Main Author: AHMAD, IRSHAD
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15392/1/PhD%20thesis%20Correction%2026%20sep%202013%20Corrected%20Version%202%20Final%20Print%20Version.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15392/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Vision and haptic are two most important modalities in a medical simulation. While visual cues assist one to see his actions when performing a medical procedure, haptic cues enable feeling the object being manipulated during the interaction. Despite their importance in a computer simulation, the combination of both modalities has not been adequately assessed, especially that in a haptic dominant environment. Thus, resulting in poor emphasis in resource allocation management in terms of effort spent in rendering the two modalities for simulators with realistic real-time interactions. Addressing this problem requires an investigation on whether a single modality (haptic) or a combination of both visual and haptic could be better for learning skills in a haptic dominant environment such as in a palpation simulator. However, before such an investigation could take place one main technical implementation issue in visio-haptic rendering needs to be addressed