A haptic needle manipulation simulator for chinese acupuncture learning and training

A haptic needle manipulation simulator for chinese acupuncture learning and training

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Source Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH international conference on Virtual Reality continuum and its applications in industry table of contents

Singapore
SESSION: 1-2 VRC in bio & medical sciences table of contents

Pages: 57 - 64
Year of Publication: 2004
ISBN:1-58113-884-9
Authors Pheng-Ann Heng
Tien-Tsin Wong
Ka-Man Leung
Yim-Pan Chui
Hanqiu Sun

Sponsor SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Publisher ACM New York, NY, USA

ABSTRACT
This paper presents a haptic needle manipulation simulator for Chinese acupuncture learning and training. Students can learn and practise acupuncture in the proposed 3D interactive virtual environment that supports force feedback interface for needle insertion. So that, students not only "see" but also "touch" the virtual patient. With the high performance computers, highly informative and flexible visualization of acupuncture points of various related meridian and collateral can be highlighted to guide the students during training. Such a virtual reality system can provide an interesting and effective learning environment for Chinese acupuncture.