A HAPTIC NEEDLE MANIPULATION SIMULATOR for Chinese ACUPUNCTURE LEARNING and TRAINING

Pheng-Ann Heng; Tien-Tsin Wong; Ka-Man Leung; Yim-Pan Chui; Hanqiu Sun

doi:10.1142/S0219467806002203

A HAPTIC NEEDLE MANIPULATION SIMULATOR for Chinese ACUPUNCTURE LEARNING and TRAINING

Pheng-Ann Heng, Tien-Tsin Wong, Ka-Man Leung, Yim-Pan Chui, Hanqiu Sun

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	205-230
Number of pages	26
Journal	International Journal of Image and Graphics
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219467806002203
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Chinese acupuncture
haptics
needle insertion
simulation
Virtual reality

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