Haptic Fidelity: The Game Changer in Surgical Simulators for the Next Decade?

Front Oncol. 2021 Aug 11:11:713343. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.713343. eCollection 2021.

Valentin Favier^{1

2

3}, Gérard Subsol³, Martha Duraes², Guillaume Captier^{2

3}, Patrice Gallet^{4

5

6}

¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
² Laboratory of Anatomy of Montpellier, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
³ Research-team ICAR, Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM), Univ. Montpellier, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Montpellier, France.
⁴ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Brabois Hospital, University Regional Hospital of Nancy, Lorraine University, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
⁵ Virtual Hospital of Lorraine, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
⁶ NGERE, INSERM U1256 lab, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: fidelity; haptics; simulator assessment; surgical education; surgical simulation.