Haptic Device Integrated Dental Education Simulation

Virtual Reality (VR) applications in medicine had
significant improvements. 3D visualization of various
anatomical parts using advanced medical scanner
images, anatomy education, surgery operation
simulation, virtual simulator for laparoscopic
skills, virtual endoscopy, psychotherapy and
rehabilitation techniques are some of the VR
applications in medicine. Integration of the haptic
devices into VR applications increased the quality of
the systems. By using haptic devices, the user can
not only feed information to the computer but can
receive information from the computer in the form of
a felt sensation on some part of the body. In this
study a method to develop a dental education
simulator supported by haptic feedback is described
and the evaluation studies held with dentists are
presented.

Autorentext

Umut Kocak has an Electric and Electronics Engineering BSc. and
Medical Informatics MSc. from Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey.He is currently working on soft tissue deformation
as a Phd student in Department of Science and Technology in
Linkoping University - Sweden. His interests include FEM,
haptics, virtual environments.

Klappentext

Virtual Reality (VR) applications in medicine had
significant improvements. 3D visualization of various
anatomical parts using advanced medical scanner
images, anatomy education, surgery operation
simulation, virtual simulator for laparoscopic
skills, virtual endoscopy, psychotherapy and
rehabilitation techniques are some of the VR
applications in medicine. Integration of the haptic
devices into VR applications increased the quality of
the systems. By using haptic devices, the user can
not only feed information to the computer but can
receive information from the computer in the form of
a felt sensation on some part of the body. In this
study a method to develop a dental education
simulator supported by haptic feedback is described
and the evaluation studies held with dentists are
presented.