Abstract
Medical simulation has become an accepted tool to support team training and quality assurance of medical interventions. Successful examples include paramedic emergency crew training, anesthesia and delivery training. In this article we work on the two hypotheses that (1) simulation will gradually be introduced in other medical areas as well, and (2) that the number of required functions and the level of required realism in a given application will steadily increase. This has farreaching technical consequences, notably a steep increase in technical complexity. We envisage specialized groups working on specific functions, specific pathologies, and/or selected interventions. The demand for managing this complexity asks for principles of open-source development. For the technical structure we translate the problem into the need for an open plug & play architecture. The article will discuss an exploration of three existing platforms originating from an intersection of the fields of embedded systems and design education. The focus
of the work is on openness, which covers the nature of the plug and play mechanisms, scalability and extensibility. The three platforms are (1) Microchip PIC, (2) Lego NXT and (3) Phidgets MSP. As a case study we choose simple functions from the field of delivery and neonate simulations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The 12th world multi-conference on systemics, cybernetics and informatics : June 29th - July 2nd, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA : jointly with the 14th International conference on information systems analysis and synthesis : ISAS 2008 : proceedings |
Editors | Nagib Callaos |
Place of Publication | Orlando |
Publisher | International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS) |
Pages | 214-219 |
Volume | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |