New technologies supporting surgical interventions and training of surgical skills - A look at projects in Europe supporting minimally invasive techniques

Analysis of verbal communication during teaching in the operating room and the potentials for surgical training

Engineering for patient safety: the clinically driven approach

A new assessment method for verbal communication in the operating room

Engineering for patient safety

A new method for communication analyses in endoscopic surgery, its validation and the potential consequences for training

Does virtual reality training make sense in interventional radiology? Training skill-, rule- and knowledge-based behavior

Gunnar Johannsen's vision on the human control of complex systems

Rasmussen's model of human behaviour in laparoscopy trainign

Human reliability and training in minimally invasive surgery

A cybernetic analysis of the tunnel-in-the-sky display

Peroperative analysis of the surgical procedure

Mechanical properties of mitral annuloplasty rings

Man-machine aspects of minimally invasive surgery

Time-action analysis of laparoscopic procedures - input for clinically driven instrument design

Biomedical engineering: an interesting multidisciplinary human-machine systems field with many problems and challenges

Development of laparoscopic instruments

Navigation in virtual environments

Observation in laparoscopic surgery: overview of impeding effects and supporting aids

The influence of new technology on the human-machine interaction in bio-medical engineering: a challenge or a problem?