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Co-Me researcher Matthias Harders, head of the Virtual Reality in
Medicine Group at the Computer Vision Lab of ETH Zurich is in the
spotlight as leader of the hysteroscopy simulator project. The
simulator system is going to be a highlight of the Swiss presence at
the Hannover Messe (April 24-26, 2006). It has been selected for this
year as the representative project of ETH Zurich, and will be part of
the ETH Board booth. The Hannover Messe is the world's
leading exhibition for industrial technology, showcasing trends,
innovations and key technologies of tomorrow's industrial world. The
event is coordinated by ETH Forschung Live.
Apart from this, Matthias Harders has also recently won the
CAOS-International Travel Fellowship 2006 for his current research on
augmented reality based medical training systems. The fellowship is
awarded annually by the International Society for Computer Assisted
Orthopaedic Surgery, and supports research stays at internationally
renowned institutes.
In the Co-Me project Virtual-reality
based training of medical procedures Matthias Harders focuses on
virtual and augmented reality technologies for application in medical
education. The core activity of the project is the development of a
highly realistic hysteroscopy
simulator for training of procedural skills. The work is a joint
effort of ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, ZHW Winterthur, and the
University Hospital Zurich.
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