January 19, 2007
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference
The 2007 Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference (MMVR15) will be held on February 6 - 9, 2007 at The Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Long Beach, California. The title of this year's conference is "in vivo, in vitro, in silico: Designing the Next in Medicine"
About the Conference (from the website)
MMVR is the premier conference on emerging data-centered technologies for medical care and education.
MMVR is a multidisciplinary forum for computer scientists and engineers, physicians and surgeons, medical educators and students, military medicine specialists, and biomedical futurists. At MMVR, developers and end-users collaborate and innovate.
MMVR encourages a critical examination of current progress: from initial vision and prototypes, through assessment and validation, to clinical and academic utilization and commercialization. MMVR supports improved precision, efficiency, and outcomes in clinical diagnosis and therapy, medical education, and public health.
MMVR creates a vanguard community of thinkers that envisions and makes real the future of medicine. MMVR turns vision into proficy™.
in vivo, in vitro, in silico: Designing the Next in Medicine
Good design is critical to emerging medical technology. It eases problems of increasing complexity and data overload. It simplifies tasks to reduce confusion and error. It accelerates adoption and training by making tools intuitive. It comforts by giving engineering a friendly interface.
Good design is challenging. It demands collaboration between designers, engineers, and users. It requires extensive modeling and prototyping, observation and feedback, trial and error.
Given an expanding and aging population with rising health expectations, good design makes the difference between life and death - economically and even physically.
In addition to the traditional research topics, this year’s MMVR provides valuable insight into the role of design in a biomedical context.
The organizing committee is a distinguished group of individuals including AATP member Ian Alger.
This year’s three-day program includes 260 presentations: lecture, poster, workshop, and panel. Together they offer participants the opportunity to explore what’s next in information-based technologies for medical care and education.
For more information about MMVR15 click here.
Posted by rsk at January 19, 2007 01:52 PM