Virtual reality coupled with adapted physical interface for a better evaluation of the innovative surgical instrument

Duy Minh Phan Nguyen (1) , Jérôme Tonetti (2) , Guillaume Thomann (1)

1 G-SCOP_CPP - Conception Produit Process
2 CHUGA - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [CHU Grenoble]

In the domain of designing innovative products in the medical field, investigations are often oriented towards communication between actors and needs comprehension. In the DESTIN (DEsign of Surgical/Technological INnovation) project, User Centered Design methodology with concrete experi-ments is applied. Researchers propose emulations in an operating room for co-evaluation of innovative products and new adapted surgical procedures. In this paper, they intend to evaluate the usage of the product in a virtual environment using a 3D haptic feedback system. Researchers not only propose a better ergo-nomic situation of the physician in front of the operating screen, but also increase the performance of the simulator in order to allow the manipulation of the innovative surgical instrument developed. We used virtual reality environment and the manufactured prototype with the aim to validate the new surgical procedure and the innovative designed surgical instrument

Mots clés: Minimally Invasive Surgery; 3D-Haptic feedback system; Virtual Reality; Prototyping; User Centered Design (UCD)

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Duy Minh Phan Nguyen, Jérôme Tonetti, Guillaume Thomann. Virtual reality coupled with adapted physical interface for a better evaluation of the innovative surgical instrument. 23th CIRP Design Conference, Mar 2013, Bochum, Germany. 10 p. ⟨hal-00903913⟩