Wachs' telementoring research published in Surgery

Using the System for Telementoring with Augmented Reality (STAR)
The abdominal incision task for the system for telementoring with augmented reality (STAR) condition. Annotations (blue circles and transparent clamp icons) show where the trainee should place the clamps.]
Associate Professor Juan Wachs, with a team of Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine researchers, recently published a journal paper entitled "Medical telementoring using an augmented reality transparent display" in the journal Surgery.

The background of the study states: "The goal of this study was to design and implement a novel surgical telementoring system called the System for Telementoring with Augmented Reality (STAR) that uses a virtual transparent display to convey precise locations in the operating field to a trainee surgeon. This system was compared with a conventional system based on a telestrator for surgical instruction."

According to the article, results include: "When compared with the conventional system, participants using STAR completed the two tasks with less placement error (45% and 68%) and with fewer focus shifts (86% and 44%), but more slowly (19% for each task).

A video of the system is available at https://youtu.be/A24qB58svOg

 

Related Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26804823