John Waterworth: Virtual Reality in Medicine: A Seminar on the State of the Art

The seminar will report the results of a survey commissioned by the VR Lab in Umeå. The survey report will also be available on the Web in the near future.

Topics covered include:

Surgery

Education and Training

Preoperative Planning

Telemedicine and Collaboration

Physical and Mental Health and Rehabilitation

Virtual Bodies

Simulating Behaviours

Display Technologies

Interaction Techniques

Augmented Reality

Various Applications

The survey concludes with tentative recommendations on future directions for research in VR for Medicine in Umeå. Feedback on this question is sought from everyone with an interest in his topic.

Background information on Medical applications of VR can be found at:

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~jwworth/MedVRbms.html

(a collection of medical bookmarks) and:

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~jwworth/NM&mmvr98.html

(trip report on Medicine Meets VR 98 conference)

Välkommna!
Kenneth Nilsson