TY - GEN
T1 - Educational robotics for teleoperated general exam
AU - Cao, Caroline
AU - Danahy, Ethan
AU - Noble, Jessica
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The purpose of this project is to introduce a new educational model that allows first-year graduate students the ability to access telemedicine ideas and systems and interact intimately with the components of such devices. We are able to achieve this by forming multi-disciplinary groups working with low-cost materials to build the system from the ground up, thus exposing the students to all parts of the process. By leveraging remotely located teams, the members are required to face the underlying constraints inherent in telemedicine applications (namely, the difficulty in long-distance communication) as a major component of the project. Through the engagement of these students early in their graduate career with a real-world application and a hands-on experience, the exposure of the students in this manner complements the traditional textbook methodology and has been shown to provide indicators of positive attitudinal interest in not only those students already pursuing a medical tract of study but also general roboticists simply exploring this particular field.
AB - The purpose of this project is to introduce a new educational model that allows first-year graduate students the ability to access telemedicine ideas and systems and interact intimately with the components of such devices. We are able to achieve this by forming multi-disciplinary groups working with low-cost materials to build the system from the ground up, thus exposing the students to all parts of the process. By leveraging remotely located teams, the members are required to face the underlying constraints inherent in telemedicine applications (namely, the difficulty in long-distance communication) as a major component of the project. Through the engagement of these students early in their graduate career with a real-world application and a hands-on experience, the exposure of the students in this manner complements the traditional textbook methodology and has been shown to provide indicators of positive attitudinal interest in not only those students already pursuing a medical tract of study but also general roboticists simply exploring this particular field.
KW - engineering education
KW - medical robotics
KW - telemedicine
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U2 - 10.1109/TePRA.2012.6215655
DO - 10.1109/TePRA.2012.6215655
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863635251
SN - 9781467308557
T3 - 2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2012
SP - 59
EP - 66
BT - 2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2012
Y2 - 23 April 2012 through 24 April 2012
ER -