Title:	COMPUTER PROGRAMMING OF LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL WORKSTATION (LSW) FOR LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL SIMULATION
Author(s):	José Blas Pagador Carrasco , Francisco Miguel Sánchez Margallo , Samuel Rodríguez Bescós , Valentín Masero Vargas , Jesús Usón Gargallo
ISBN:	972-8924-09-7
Editors:	Nuno Guimarães, Pedro Isaías and Ambrosio Goikoetxea
Year:	2006
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Virtual Reality, Surgical Simulation, Haptic Devices, Human Computer Interaction.
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	622
Last Page:	626
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Virtual reality surgical simulators are used as an innovative tool and with a great expectative of future. These simulators are integrated, among other components, by a managing system interface: haptic devices that facilitate interaction between surgeons and computers in a natural way that is similar to that of the management of surgical instruments. In this paper, the necessary steps for the use of one of these haptic devices are described as Laparoscopic Surgical Workstation (LSW); its assembly, checking and programming to utilize it as a part of virtual surgical simulator of laparoscopic surgery. Found problems in integration of this simulator and taken solutions are analyzed. Specifically, the knowledge and experience of its application in the prototype developed by the ‘Sinergia’ project are agglutinated. This article offers a starting point to other researchers who would like to spend their efforts to a human-computer interfaces study, that are specially designed for minimally invasive surgery procedures. The prototype, where LSW is integrated, will make possible to carry out the basic training objectives and laparoscopic surgeons to acquire their aimed skills.
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