Indicative contents

VR in Life Sciences

• Role of Virtual Reality and Virtual environments in Life Sciences.
• An overview of VR for Hospitals.
• Effectiveness of VR in various fields.
• VR in Surgical Simulation and Planning and VR-based Rehabilitation.
• VR in Tele-presence surgery and Telemedicine.
• VR in Endoscopy, Neuro-psychology and other medical practices.
• Applications of VR in Neuro-surgery, Rhino-surgery.
• Applications of VR in Orthopedics and Plastic surgery.
• VR for the Physically Disabled people.
• VR in Medical Imaging, Dentistry and Patient Behavioral Evaluation.
• Constructivist learning through the use of VR.
• Virtual learning environments for education, teaching, research and hospitals.
• Role of VR in Cognition science, Interactive and Intuitive Learning.
• Case studies and Examples.
   

Recommended reading

• Books
  1. Chris Esposito, Lisbeth Duncan-Lacoste. User Interfaces for Virtual Reality Applications. Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
     
  2. L. C. Jain, R. J. Howlett, N. S. Ichalkaranje, G. Tonfoni. Virtual Environments for Teaching & Learning, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2002.
     
  3. James D. Westwood et. al. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13: The Magical Next Becomes The Medical Now (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics). Ios Pr Inc, 2005.
     
  4. Peter M. Plantec, Ray Kurzwell. Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete With Software and Step-By-Step Instructions. American Management Association, 2003.
     
  5. Jon B. Olansen, Eric Rosow. Virtual Bio-Instrumentation: Biomedical, Clinical, and Healthcare Applications in LabVIEW. Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Journals
  1. Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier
  2. Journal of Surgical Research, Elsevier
  3. Computers & Education, Elsevier
  4. Technology in Society, Elsevier

   

• Magazines, Transactions & Proceedings
  1. Elearn, Association for Computing Machinery
  2. Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE
  3. Conference Proceedings, IEEE
• Internet Sites
  1. http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic463.htm#section~author_information
  2. http://www.erasmusmc.nl/bioinformatics/research/vrp.shtml
  3. http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/00/05/004.html
  4. http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR1999/biosim.htm
• Laboratory
  1. Software: VR Authoring Tools
  2. Hardware: Laboratory consisting of P4 Computers, Graphics Workstation, 3D Stereo Projection System, Immersive & Haptic 3D I/O Devices