Usability challenges in surgical simulator training

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 455-460

  Silvennoinen, Minna ^a   Kuparinen, Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Learning; Skills training; Surgical simulator; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMBINED ANALYSIS; EFFICIENT LEARNING; ERROR PREVENTION; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; LEARNING SKILLS; SIMULATOR TRAINING; SKILLS TRAINING; SURGICAL SIMULATORS; USER SUPPORT; VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70450208773     PISSN: 13301012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITI.2009.5196126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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