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Keyboard control method for virtual reality micro-robotic cell injection training
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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by Syafizwan Mohd Faroque, Ben HoranBen Horan, Matthew JoordensMatthew JoordensThe rapid development of virtual reality offers significant potential for skills training applications. Our ongoing work proposes virtual reality operator training for the micro-robotic cell injection procedure. The interface between the operator and the system can be achieved in many different ways. The computer keyboard is ubiquitous in its use for everyday computing applications and also commonly utilized in virtual reality systems. Based on the premise that most people have experience in using a computer keyboard, as opposed to more sophisticated input devices, this paper considers the feasibility of using a keyboard to control the micro-robot for cell injection. In this study, thirteen participants underwent the experimental evaluation. The participants were asked to perform three simulated trial sessions in a virtual micro-robotic cell injection environment. Each session consisted of ten cell injection trials and relevant data for each trial were recorded and analyzed. Results showed participants' performance improvement after the three sessions. It was also observed that participants intuitively controlled multiple axes of the micro-robot simultaneously despite the absence of instruction on how to do so. This continued throughout the experiments and suggests skills transfer from other keyboard based interactions. Based on the results provided, it is suggested that keyboard control is a feasible, simple and low-cost control method for the virtual micro-robot.
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System of Systems Engineering Conference (10th : 2015 : San Antonio, Tex.)Pagination
416 - 421Publisher
IEEELocation
San Antonio, Texas, USAPlace of publication
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
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2015-05-17End date
2015-05-20ISBN-13
9781479976119Language
engPublication classification
E Conference publication; E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2015, IEEETitle of proceedings
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering; SoSE 2015Usage metrics
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