Simulating impairment through virtual reality

A Virtual Reality Simulating Catheter Manipulations

This paper describes a virtual reality system for catheter manipulation. This is a part of a novel education system for medical personal and students who aspire to become catheter specialists. It teaches not only catheter procedures but also clinical procedures of Electrophysiology Study (EPS) and catheter ablation with domain knowledge of electrophysiology. A input device is connected to the s...

Inducing Cooperation Through Virtual Reality

Studying altruism through virtual reality

A new SISSA study explores the areas of the brain involved in the processes that lead us to help others even at the cost of our own lives, A computer-based environment developed with the aim to shed light on the origins of altruism: this is the innovative approach used by a research group at SISSA in Trieste, in collaboration with the University of Udine. This new study-recently published in th...

Cooperative Robot Teleoperation through Virtual Reality Interfaces

Robots are employed to do exacting routines, ranging from the common place to the difficult and from the relatively safe to the highly dangerous. Remote-controlled robots -or teleoperationis one way to combine the intelligence and maneuverability of human beings with the precision and durability of robots. Teleoperation can be difficult, due to the complexity both of the system and of informati...

Enhancing Engineering Education through Distributed Virtual Reality

1 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0355 Abstract – Visual interaction can greatly change the way engineering is performed, both in learning new materials and in terms of explaining activities between practicing professionals. This paper presents a study to develop and assess Distributed Virtual Reality (DVR) for Engineering Educa...