![]() (Taste and smell are still under-utilized, alas.) Simulation lets actors rehearse in any number of ways, interrupting and reconfiguring the plot to create the most compelling finale. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theater for medicine, where multiple senses are engaged-sight, sound, and touch-and language and image fuse. Cinema and TV were meeting their eventual heir as “virtual reality” arrived on the scene. Unlike television and cinema, the computer-plus-Internet was multi-directional-users could create and share a moving image. More so than print, the computer was image-friendly. (Remember the dot-matrix printer?) The Internet was about to make its commercial debut, providing a means to link all these solitary devices into a communicating, sharing, interactive meta-forum. When Medicine Meets Virtual Reality launched in 1992, computers were already popular in most of the industrialized world, although relatively expensive and clunky. What was once a costly academic and military project is now an everyday tool. Who are their offspring today? Five billion mobile phones and similarly ubiquitous personal and business computers in countless variations. It and its emerging peers were elephantine contraptions, but they evolved rapidly, increasing in speed and shrinking in size, adopting efficiencies of scale in reproduction and mutating continuously. ENIAC, the first electronic universal digital computer, was born on Valentine’s Day 1946-a lifetime ago. WESTWOOD Aligned Management Associates, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE The publisher is not responsible for the use which might be made of the following information. 4502 Rachael Manor Drive Fairfax, VA 22032 USA fax: +1 7 e-mail: ISBN 978-1-60750-705-5 (print) ISBN 978-1-60750-706-2 (online) Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920396 Publisher IOS Press BV Nieuwe Hemweg 6B 1013 BG Amsterdam Netherlands fax: +31 e-mail: Distributor in the USA and Canada IOS Press, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher. Westwood MA Li Felländer-Tsai MD PhD Randy S. ![]() Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 NextMed Cortese (Eds.), Engineering the System of Healthcare Delivery ISSN 0926-9630 (print) ISSN 1879-8365 (online) Kim (Eds.), Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2010 – Advanced Technologies in Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences Vol. Gunnarsdóttir (Eds.), Seamless Care – Safe Care – The Challenges of Interoperability and Patient Safety in Health Care – Proceedings of the EFMI Special Topic Conference, June 2–4, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland Vol. Carroll (Eds.), Medical and Care Compunetics 6 Vol. Aarts (Eds.), Information Technology in Health Care: Socio-Technical Approaches 2010 – From Safe Systems to Patient Safety Vol. ![]() Moreau (Eds.), Research into Spinal Deformities 7 Vol. Legré (Eds.), Healthgrid Applications and Core Technologies – Proceedings of HealthGrid 2010 Vol. Marin (Eds.), MEDINFO 2010 – Proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Medical Informatics Vol. Maeder (Eds.), Global Telehealth – Selected Papers from Global Telehealth 2010 (GT2010) – 15th International Conference of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth and 1st National Conference of the Australasian Telehealth Society Vol. Wingender (Ed.), Biological Petri Nets Vol. ![]() Volume 163 Recently published in this series Vol. Volumes from 2005 onwards are available online. The complete series has been accepted in Medline. A driving aspect of international health informatics is that telecommunication technology, rehabilitative technology, intelligent home technology and many other components are moving together and form one integrated world of information and communication media. Prefix: .private.enterprise (1.3.6.1.4.Studies in Health Technology and Informatics This book series was started in 1990 to promote research conducted under the auspices of the EC programmes’ Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) and Biomedical and Health Research (BHR) bioengineering branch. SMI Network Management Private Enterprise Codes: PEN are created and maintained by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) in a public registry, including a publicly revealed email address and contact name.
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