A Ubiquitous Context-Aware Environment for Surgical Training

  • Authors:

  • P. Ordonez;P. Kodeswaran;V. Korolev;W. Li;O. Walavalkar;B. Elgamil;A. Joshi;T. Finin;Y. Yesha;I. George

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. ordopa1@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. palanik1@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. vkorol1@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. wenjia1@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. onkar1@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. ben8@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. joshi@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. finin@cs.umbc.edu;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD USA. yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu;Department of General Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD USA. igeorge@smail.umaryland.edu

  • Venue:
  • MOBIQUITOUS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking&Services (MobiQuitous)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The age of technology has changed the way that surgeons are being trained. Traditional methodologies for training can include lecturing, shadowing, apprenticing, and developing skills within live clinical situations. Computerized tools which simulate surgical procedures and/or experiences can allow for "virtual" experiences to enhance the traditional training procedures that can dramatically improve upon the older methods. However, such systems do not to adapt to the training context. We describe a ubiquitous computing system that tracks low-level events in the surgical training room (e.g. student locations, lessons completed, learning tasks assigned, and performance metrics) and from these derive the training context. This can be used to create an adaptive training system.