Finding best expert for tutoring in haptic based dental simulation | |
| Author | Shrestha, Poonam |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.ICT-10-10 |
| Subject(s) | Virtual reality - Simulation methods Dental care--Computer simulation |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Information and Communication Technologies, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. ICT-10-10 |
| Abstract | Simulators have begun playing a prominent role in medical training. Virtual Re- ality based Haptic simulators are being used to train and improve skills of dental students. For such a training system, it is good if it has an intelligent part which helps student to learn. These intelligent tutors can provide necessary feedback to the student and help them to progress without the need of a real instructor. Student can carry out many practical sessions and judge themselves and improve their skills. This study is related to finding the most matching expert while doing dental simu- lation. Every expert has their own working style and so has the student. If the student is given feedback from an expert whose working style is entirely different from that of the student, this expert won’t be able to guide him/her as properly as an expert who has similar working pattern. Finding expert with similar style of working as that of student helps student to learn and progress faster. To find the best matching expert, we need to find the similarity between expert’s and novice’s trajectory. Expert and novice sequences are of different length. An algo- rithm called Dynamic Distance Warping (DDW) has been developed which can find the similarity in such sequences. It is derived from Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). Unlike DTW, DDW samples the sequences in distance instead of time. |
| Year | 2010 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. ICT-10-10 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information and Communication Technology (ICT) |
| Chairperson(s) | Peter Haddawy; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Dailey, Mathew;Siriwan Suebnukarn; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Finlan;Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2010 |