Machaca et al., A Multimodality Haptic Feedback Device for Visual-Haptic ..., Haptics Symposium 2024
Channel: IEEE Haptics Symposium
Date: 2024-04-05

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Despite the widespread use of robotic minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) platforms, none currently provide haptic feedback of tool interaction forces or contact vibrations with patient tissue. This technical limitation makes psychomotor skill development difficult for surgical trainees, who must learn to visually estimate tactile cues (visual-haptic acuity). Single-modality haptic feedback devices have shown great promise in significantly improving RMIS training task performance. As humans naturally use various tactile cues simultaneously, it follows that receiving multiple modalities of haptic feedback could be more effective in this regard. In the current work, a multimodality haptic feedback device is developed for future studies to evaluate this hypothesis. #haptics #haptics2024