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CUbiC members win best paper award at MMVR three years in a row
Febuary 04, 2008
Congratulations to Kanav Kahol, Anusha Sridaran, Mark Smith and Sethuraman Panchanathan for winning the best paper award at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) (http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_virtual_reality.html) conference, in Long Beach California.
The paper, entitled "Physics Based Hybrid Deformation Model for Configurable HapticTraining for Virtual Surgery," is a joint paper from the School of Computing and Informatics at ASU and the Banner Good Samaritan hospital. It is a notable feat that it is for the third year in a row that Kanav and Panch have won this award. This is unprecedented and has never happened in the history of the MMVR conference. The two other papers that won the award in 2006 and 2007 are:
1. Kahol K, Smith M, Ferrara J, Leibowitz A., Panchanathan S "Gesture Based Hand Movement Analysis and Haptic Feedback for Surgical Training" at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference Jan 24-27 2006.
2. Kahol K, Smith M, Panchanathan, S. "Configurable haptic training system for laparoscopy," at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference Feb 6- 9 2007.
Congratulations to all the authors!