M. S. Raghu Prasad

TL;DR: Modern day curriculum-based training should evaluate the skills of residents with robust force and psychomotor-based exercises for proficient laparoscopy and visual feedback on force and motion during training has the potential to enhance the learning curve of residents.

TL;DR: Force perception of experts was found to be better than novices and residents and experts had good control over force with both dominant and NHs, suggesting that force-based training curricula should not only have proprioception tasks, but should also include bimanual force-skills training exercises in order to improve force perception ability and hand skills of novice and residents.

TL;DR: The results obtained can be used as basic building block for the calibration of virtual reality based minimally invasive surgery related tasks and force based virtual user interfaces ranging from touch pad to assistive tools.

TL;DR: The force perception of 18 novices in the absence of external information is analyzed by comparing the isometric force matching performance of index finger in extended arm posture with that of laparoscopic instrument in a force-based probing task and the effect of handedness on force perception is examined.

TL;DR: In this article, a force-variation based human performance task involving right index finger was performed and it was found that the relationship between movement time and index of difficulty for force tasks are well described by Fitts's law in visual guided, force-based virtual movement task.