Grasping reality through illusion—interactive graphics serving science
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Implementation of a Haptic Interface for a Virtual Reality Simulator for Flexible Endoscopy
HAPTICS '03 Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS'03)
A Human-Machine Interface for Medical Image Analysis and Visualization in Virtual Environments
ICASSP '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '97) -Volume 4 - Volume 4
Embodied cognition: a field guide
Artificial Intelligence
Providing Simulation of Medical Manipulation with Haptic Feedback
ICAT '07 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence
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Virtual simulators have been used in the last twenty years for applications ranging from flight simulation to computer-based training, just to name a few. More recently a new level of simulation has been introduced thanks to haptic interfaces able to reproduce kinesthetic and/or tactile feedback, typically experimented during interaction with real-world objects. In this paper visual simulation and haptic interfaces are integrated in a novel training system for Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), an in-vitro fertilization technique which is now a standard for the treatment of human infertility. We describe a virtual micromanipulation simulator made by two hand-based Cyberforce haptic devices (a synthetic replica of the actual manipulation gear) and a visual-haptic engine simulating the shape and the dynamic behavior of the main components in the artificial fertilization process: the human egg, the selected sperm and the micro needles required to inject the latter into the egg's cytoplasm. Our first tests, conducted so far, are encouraging.