A Virtual-Reality Training Simulator for Cochlear Implant Surgery

Jones, Blake; Rohani, Seyed Alireza; Ong, Nelson; Tayeh, Tarek; Chalabi, Ahmad; Agrawal, Sumit; Ladak, Hanif M.

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“…In fact, Unity has been used to develop simulators for other similar applications, like connected vehicles 22,23,68 and remote vehicle piloting. 24 It is also used to simulated intelligent agents, 25 robotics, 26 some medical application, 27,28 and much more. [29][30][31] The contribution of the article is easy to use and customizable UAV simulator called UTSim.…”

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UTSim: A framework and simulator for UAV air traffic integration, control, and communication

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International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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The interest in unmanned systems especially unmanned aerial vehicle is continuously increasing. Unmanned aerial vehicles started to become of great benefit in many different fields. It is anticipated that unmanned aerial vehicles will soon become a main component of the future urban air traffic. The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles within existing air traffic environments has started getting the attention of researchers. Integrating unmanned systems in the real-world urban air traffic requires the development of tools and simulators to enable researchers in their ongoing efforts. In this article, a simulator called UTSim is introduced. The proposed simulator is built using the Unity platform. UTSim is capable of simulating unmanned aerial vehicle physical specification, navigation, control, communication, sensing and avoidance in environments with static and moving objects. The simulator enables studying and exploring several unmanned aerial vehicle air traffic integration issues like sense and avoid, communication protocols, navigation algorithms, and much more. UTSim is designed and developed to be easily used. The user can specify the properties of the environment, the number and types of unmanned aerial vehicles in the environment, and specify the algorithm to be used for path planning and collision avoidance. The simulator outputs a log file with a lot of useful information such as the number of sent and received messages, the number of detected objects and collided unmanned aerial vehicles. Three scenarios have been implemented in this article to present the capabilities of UTSim and to illustrate how it can benefit researchers in the field of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles in urban air traffic.

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UTSim: A framework and simulator for UAV air traffic integration, control, and communication

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“…The final contribution, again shares a medical or healthcare contexts. In “A virtual-reality training simulator for cochlear implant surgery” Blake Jones et al (2019) address in the ways in which a Unity3D-based virtual reality system was used to teach the difficult skill of surgically implanting the hearing-assisting device.…”

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Editorial to the April Issue

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2019

Simulation & Gaming

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This issue contains eight very different contributions, but ones that are each connected to some of the others, through simulation/game type, the area of use, or the technology that is being utilized. This, in my view, is exactly as it should be during our 50th anniversary year. This journal has maintained a position for various types of simulations and games that have a human element in them, from medicine to schools and from board games to virtual realities and features both research articles and simulations ready to use. The first article, "Does repeated exposure to critical situations in a screen-based simulation improve the self-assessment of non-technical skills in postpartum hemorrhage management?" by Jessy Barré et al. (2019), shows how the use of a medical simulation may decrease the risk of the world's leading cause of maternal death at childbirth. This task is accomplished by training both leaders and teams to work more efficiently and empathically in such situations. In the second, "Using a serious game to train violence risk assessment and management skills", Jonathan Mason and Krystelle Loader (2019) discuss how a game can be utilized to teach people who will be working in health care and human services to become more proficient at assessing the risk of violence. The study showed that learning effects between the game and traditional learning were similar, but the game was found to be more engaging. The third, "Gaming in virtual reality: What changes in terms of usability, emotional response and sense of presence compared to non-immersive video games?" by Federica Pallavicini, Alessandro Pepe, and Maria Eleonora Minissi (2019), compared the playing of the same game in desktop and virtual reality conditions. Both environments were found as easy to use, but the virtual reality version provided a stronger sense of presence and a more intensive emotional experience. In the fourth, "Developing a task switching training game for children with a rare genetic syndrome linked to intellectual disability", Nigel Robb, Annalu Waller, and Kate A. Woodcock (2019) analyzed the use of cognitive task switching that was tested and developed with children who have a genetic syndrome that affects intelligence. Their research explored the way in which skill improvement was seen with those who played the game, as opposed to those who played a control version. The fifth article, by Bill Roungas, Femke Bekius, and Sebastiaan Meijer (2019) is about game theory and game design, two areas that are often confused with each other by people who are not game researchers, yet rarely seen together. "The game between 851885S AGXXX10.

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