Purpose In laparoscopic surgery training, experts guide novice physicians to desired
instrument positions or indicate relevant areas of interest. These instructions are usually …

The introduction of Augmented Reality (AR) Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) in
collaboration between remote and local workers, introduces new challenges given that …

Introduction The learning curve in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is steep compared to
open surgery. One of the reasons is that training in the operating room in MIS is mainly …

Background A challenge of laparoscopic surgery is learning how to interpret the indirect
view of the operative field. Acquiring professional vision—understanding what to see and …

Distributed collaboration on physical tasks is a social process that involves all actors
iteratively proposing, assessing and modifying the view of a shared workspace. In this …

Virtual Reality (VR) and the Kinect sensor, as promising tools in biomedical research, offers
diverse applications in medical education, rehabilitation, diagnostics, and health research …

In this paper, we show how surgeons can interact with medical images using finger and
hand gestures in two situations: one hand-free and no hands-free interaction. We explain …

All along their careers, surgeons learn through mentoring, operating on patients side-by-
side with expert surgeons. However, access to experts is more and more challenging as …

Surgery is primarily taught through mentoring, where an expert mentor supervises a mentee
performing surgery, taking over when necessary. Telementoring systems aim to provide …

Researchers have shown both performance drawbacks and benefits of using telepointers or
similar display overlay-technologies in remote instruction; however, there is not a clear …