The effect of network characteristics on e-health Telehaptics applications; Application of suture gestures in distributed virtual surgical environment

The combination of surgical simulation and haptic interfaces provides a powerful platform for reproducing the visual and motor sensations that a surgeon experiences during a surgical operation. With the wide availability of information technologies and new, robust telecommunication technologies, remote tele-guidance for learning surgical procedures has become feasible for more effectively employing expertise through remote instruction. The current study employs an interaction analysis approach adapted to telehaptic collaboration/guidance solutions in surgical suturing task training, so we aim to identify not only the influence of the network parameters on telehaptic guidance but also on the e-learning of gestures.