A University of South Florida professor and his team of students are developing a tool to help future and current surgeons.
Believe it or not, they’re using video game technology to do it.
The Spatial Augmented Game Environment or S.A.G.E. is the brain child of Dr. Yu Sun and some of his students.
“We have a projector, a very popular Microsoft Kinect, and we have a computer,” said Dr. Yu Sun, University of South Florida.
They’re using it to teach kids about the inside of the human body.
They also believe it could be a training tool for surgeons.
“We want to make a better surgery, and make the surgeons job easier, and we also want to reduce the surgical time, so there’s a lot of room for innovation in that domain.”
The image is projected onto the body.
Dr. Sun’s version can project the inside of the human body including the organs, bones, and muscles.
“Not only do you get to interact in the real world and that’s a much more natural way to interact, but you’re also able to bring out the third dimension into e-learning,” said Adrian Johnson, USF graduate student.
S.A.G.E. is still in the development phase, but it will become a permanent display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa later this year as a tool to teach anatomy.
The project was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation.