This interview features a discussion between AE Federico Barbagli and Allison Okamura, one of the guest editors of the Special Section on Haptics in Medicine and Clinical Skill Acquisition in the July-September 2011 issue, about how this special section came about and the six chosen papers.
AE Federico Barbagli interviews Timothy R. Coles, Dwight Meglan, and Nigel W. John, authors of "The Role of Haptics in Medical Training Simulators: A Survey of the State of the Art" from the January-March 2011 issue, where they discuss the purpose and benefits of medical training simulators.
In this interview, AE Federico Barbaglia and Lynette Jones, one of the Guest Editors of the World Haptics Spotlight Section in the July–September 2010 issue, discuss the five papers featured in this issue.
AE Federico Barbagli Interviews Sabrina Paneels and Jonathan C. Roberts, authors of "Review of Designs for Haptic Data Visualization" from the April–June 2010 issue, where they define the field of haptic data visualization, give examples of its application, and discuss the motivation for their work.
The full article can be found here: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TOH.2009.44.
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