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Adding Safety Rules to Surgeon-Authored VR Training

Numerical Analysis · Submitted 3 Nov 2021

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The authors' main claim Presenting SE-determined procedural missteps via the snapshot mechanism at the end of the training increases acceptance

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CitationErik W. Black, Jorg Peters, Ruiliang Gao, Sergei Kurenov. "Adding Safety Rules to Surgeon-Authored VR Training." arXiv:2111.02523 (2021). https://pith.science/paper/APDTCBPG
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Introduction: Safety criteria in surgical VR training are typically hard-coded and informally summarized. The Virtual Reality (VR) content creation interface, TIPS-author, for the Toolkit for Illustration of Procedures in Surgery (TIPS) allows surgeon-educators (SEs) to create laparoscopic VR-training modules with force feedback. TIPS-author initializes anatomy shape and physical properties selected by the SE accessing a cloud data base of physics-enabled pieces of anatomy. Methods: A new addition to TIPS-author are safety rules that are set by the SE and are automatically monitored during simulation. Errors are recorded as visual snapshots for feedback to the trainee. This paper reports on the implementation and opportunistic evaluation of the snap-shot mechanism as a trainee feedback mechanism. TIPS was field tested at two surgical conferences, one before and one after adding the snapshot feature. Results: While other ratings of TIPS remained unchanged for an overall Likert scale score of 5.24 out of 7 (7 equals very useful), the rating of the statement `The TIPS interface helps learners understand the force necessary to explore the anatomy' improved from 5.04 to 5.35 out of 7 after the snapshot mechanism was added. Conclusions: The ratings indicate the viability of the TIPS open-source2 E-authored surgical training units. Presenting SE-determined procedural missteps via the snapshot mechanism at the end of the training increases acceptance

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s0 Introduction: Safety criteria in surgical VR training are typically hard-coded and informally summarized. background 0.89 0.05 0.02 asserted 1.00
s1 The Virtual Reality (VR) content creation interface, TIPS-author, for the Toolkit for Illustration of Procedures in Surgery (TIPS) allows surgeon-educators (SEs) to create laparoscopic VR-training modules with force feedback. background 0.65 0.19 0.02 asserted 1.00
s2 TIPS-author initializes anatomy shape and physical properties selected by the SE accessing a cloud data base of physics-enabled pieces of anatomy. background 0.50 0.15 0.02 asserted 1.00
s3 Methods: A new addition to TIPS-author are safety rules that are set by the SE and are automatically monitored during simulation. contribution 0.61 0.82 0.03 asserted 1.00
s4 Errors are recorded as visual snapshots for feedback to the trainee. method 0.97 0.58 0.03 asserted 1.00
s5 This paper reports on the implementation and opportunistic evaluation of the snap-shot mechanism as a trainee feedback mechanism. contribution 0.98 0.89 0.04 asserted 0.95
s6 TIPS was field tested at two surgical conferences, one before and one after adding the snapshot feature. method 0.99 0.90 0.02 asserted 0.99
s7 Results: While other ratings of TIPS remained unchanged for an overall Likert scale score of 5.24 out of 7 (7 equals very useful), the rating of the statement `The TIPS interface helps learners understand the force necessary to explore the anatomy' improved from 5.04 to 5.35 out of 7 after the snapshot mechanism was added. result 1.00 0.96 0.09 asserted 0.99
s8 Conclusions: The ratings indicate the viability of the TIPS open-source2 E-authored surgical training units. interpretation 0.99 0.69 0.34 hedged possibility 0.96
s9 Presenting SE-determined procedural missteps via the snapshot mechanism at the end of the training increases acceptance interpretation 0.73 0.71 0.58 asserted 0.99

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Introduction: Safety criteria in surgical VR training are typically hard-coded and informally summarized. The Virtual Reality (VR) content creation interface, TIPS-author, for the Toolkit for Illustration of Procedures in Surgery (TIPS) allows surgeon-educators (SEs) to create laparoscopic VR-training modules with force feedback. TIPS-author initializes anatomy shape and physical properties selected by the SE accessing a cloud data base of physics-enabled pieces of anatomy. Methods: A new addition to TIPS-author are safety rules that are set by the SE and are automatically monitored during simulation. Errors are recorded as visual snapshots for feedback to the trainee. This paper reports on the implementation and opportunistic evaluation of the snap-shot mechanism as a trainee feedback mechanism. TIPS was field tested at two surgical conferences, one before and one after adding the snapshot feature. Results: While other ratings of TIPS remained unchanged for an overall Likert scale score of 5.24 out of 7 (7 equals very useful), the rating of the statement `The TIPS interface helps learners understand the force necessary to explore the anatomy' improved from 5.04 to 5.35 out of 7 after the snapshot mechanism was added. Conclusions: The ratings indicate the viability of the TIPS open-source2 E-authored surgical training units. Presenting SE-determined procedural missteps via the snapshot mechanism at the end of the training increases acceptance

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