January 30th Minutes

From: Ken Waldron

HAVnet meeting notes, Friday 1/30/04.

Present: Kevin Smith (telecon), Margaret Krebs, David Gutierrez, Juan Aragon, Robert Cheng, Ken Waldron, Pat Youngblood, Parvati Dev, LeRoy Heinrichs, Peggy Wu, Steve Senger (videocon)

1 Quarterly Report
Ken thanked everybody for the response on providing material for the report. Robert will provide a note on the Kodak system and David on the tests he and Juan have been doing with Dale Harris (in Japan).

2 Anatomy Lesson Follow-up
We still need to do testing with Steve and David to clear up network issue, flickering issue, poor audio and inability to follow. The necessary bandwidth has not been avaiable because of many visitors. We did do a small trial but did not see same problems. Juan, David, Robert and Steve will make a test plan and involve Margaret for documentation. Set for 10 am Wednesday Feb. 4th.

3 Kodak Autostereo
Have had many people in and out. Paul Brown has brought many in. A reporter from the San Jose Mercury was in yesterday. Stanford Report did an article. We should track holographic displays as potentially superseding autostereo. Steve commented on one shown at MMVR that can service multiple viewers.

4 Collaborative Software
David and Juan reported on their reviews of Sparrow and EditMe - demonstrated on screen. Sparrow is more oriented to project management. EditMe potentially more flexible but seems to be a development project since it does not seem to run universally on different browsers and operating systems. A Sparrow license at market cost is $3,500 plus $35 per user. EditMe is $1,500 for our own server. The decision was to procure Sparrow but use Stanford's contacts with Xerox to seek a favorable price.

5 Collaboration Contracts
Wisconsin contract is in place.
Consulting contract with Bharti Temkin is done.
Ken reported on CSIRO contract status.
U. Michigan needs to produce a new statement of work based on conversation between Parvati and Brian Athey at MMVR.
Consulting contract with chuck Friedman is not done.

6 SimTecT Demonstration
Le Roy sent email to Chris Gunn on ways to make anatomy model in ReachIn display more "surgeon friendly". Chris was on leave this week.
7 ReachIn We are waiting on paperwork for the ReachIn API. We have paid for a full license that includes use and additional software maintenance. The API is also a software development environment. We need to upgrade the video card on the computer serving the workstation. LeRoy is leading content, and Robert system on this sub-project.

8 Brief Sub-Project Reports
Teledermatology: Chris has designed haptic probe, but is having trouble mounting accelerometer packages on terminal foils. Ken and Hayes Gladstone have completed NIBIB proposal to go out today.

Access Grid: We have tested several cameras. Trying to make it work at 640x480 pixels. It works off a PC. Would like demonstration for group.

Multi-center trials with Imperial College: Proposal presents challenges coordinating 5 sites: 3 in Europe and 2 in U.S. Subjects must wear sensors under gown and gloves. We need Polhemus sensors. Kevin Smith says they have Polhemus sensors. LeRoy will send email to Kevin on the configuration needed. We will be using the LapSim software with the bimanual interface.

Last Mile Proposal: Mary Kratz has suggested possible sources of funding. San Francisco Kaiser Hospital wants to be a beta site for the Surgery Testbed. They are discussing last mile requirements internally.

The NGI video will be put up on our website.

9 TATRC
TATRC is setting up a West Coast presence, headed by Greg Mogel. Parvati and LeRoy are developing a proposal for a series of workshops for researchers and educators based in Western U.S. and Pacific Rim on simulation-based learning. There will be one workshop every quarter. The proposal will go out next week.

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