Although Augmented Reality (AR) has been touted as the future of surgery, its contribution to
distributed collaboration such as in surgical teleconsulting has not been articulated. We …

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 …

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 …

The operating room (OR) is the main venue where trainee surgeons learn their craft. With
educational challenges such as limited OR time and caseload, inconsistent faculty …

Surgeons practising outside experts centers have difficulty accessing mentors to operate
with them in order to update their skills. Telementoring can increase the reach of mentors by …

In laparoscopic surgery, senior surgeons spend great efforts to convey knowledge to their
trainees. Any misinterpretation of the instructions may lead to inevitable errors that have a …

With great advances in telecommunication technologies in the recent 15 years, tightly
coupled, synchronous collaborative work in highly technical domains, such as engineering …

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学会 第37巻第2号 原 著 Key points in laparoscopic suturing and knot-tying ~Findings on …