Email:
Edgar Rojas Muñoz
Early career Faculty working in Mixed
Reality and Human-Computer Interaction
PUBLICATIONS & DISSEMINATION
Journal Publications
August 2021
Title: Assessing Task Understanding in Remote Ultrasound Tasks via Gestural Analysis
Journal: Pattern Analysis and Applications. Link
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November 2020
Title: Assessing Collaborative Physical Tasks via Gestural Analysis
Journal: Transactions in Human-Machine Systems. Link
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October 2020
Title: The AI-Medic: An Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery
Journal: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization. Link
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May 2020
Title: Evaluation of an augmented reality platform for austere surgical telementoring: a randomized controlled crossover study in cricothyroidotomies
Journal: Nature Digital Medicine. Link
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November 2019
Title: The System for Telementoring with Augmented Reality (STAR): A Head-Mounted Display to Improve Surgical Coaching and Confidence in Remote Areas
Journal: Surgery. Link
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July 2019
Title: Telementoring in Leg Fasciotomies via Mixed-Reality: Clinical Evaluation of the STAR Platform
Journal: Military Medicine. Link
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October 2018
Title: Augmented Reality as a Medium for Improved Telementoring
Journal: Military Medicine. Link
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May 2018
Title: Augmented Reality Future Step Visualization for Robust Surgical Telementoring​
Journal: Simulation in Healthcare. Link
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March 2018
Title: Surgical Telementoring without Encumbrance: A comparative study of see-through augmented reality based approaches
Journal: Annals of Surgery. Link
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Oral Presentations
August 2020
Title: The Use of Augmented Reality in Medical Telementoring
Venue: Costa Rican National High Technology Center (CeNAT). PPT
October 2019
Title: Augmented Reality for Decision Support and Telementoring in the Military
Venue: American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly. Demo
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August 2019
Title: A Portable and Self-contained Approach for Surgical Telementoring: Towards Remote, Point of Injury Care
Venue: Military Health System Research Symposium. Poster
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January 2017
Title: See-What-I-Do: Increasing mentor and trainee sense of co-presence in trauma surgeries with the STAR platform
Venue: International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Poster
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January 2016
Title: STAR – A system for telementoring with augmented reality
Venue: International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Poster
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Conference Publications
September 2020
Title: The AI-Medic: An Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery
Venue: 14th Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions workshop, at 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention. Link
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September 2020
Title: The AI-Medic: A Multimodal Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery
Venue: Demo for IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Link​
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May 2020
Title: The MAGIC of E-Health: A Gesture-Based Approach to Estimate Understanding and Performance in Remote Ultrasound Tasks
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Link
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May 2020
Title: Beyond MAGIC: Matching Collaborative Gestures using an Optimization-based Approach
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Link
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March 2020
Title: How About the Mentor? Effective Workspace Visualization in AR Telementoring
Venue: IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. Link
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May 2019
Title: MAGIC: A Fundamental Framework for Gesture Representation, Comparison and Assessment
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Link
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March 2019
Title: Robust High-Level Video Stabilization for Effective AR Telementoring
Venue: IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. Link
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October 2018
Title: 3rd Virtual and Augmented Reality for Good (VAR4Good) Workshop
Venue: Adjunct at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Link
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July 2018
Title: A First-Person Mentee Second-Person Mentor AR Interface for Surgical Telementoring
Venue: International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Link
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February 2018
Title: Augmented Visual Instruction for Surgical Practice and Training.
Venue: VAR4Good Workshop @IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. Link
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News Releases
July 2020
Title: Augmented reality tool shown to help surgeons remotely guide first responders in battlefield-like scenarios
Venue: Purdue University. Link
July 2019
Title: Did you know that a Costa Rican engineer is helping to develop the augmented reality technology in the US army?
Venue: The Costa Rica News. Link
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July 2019
Title: Tico desarrolla tecnología con realidad aumentada para atender a soldados heridos
Venue: La Nación. Link
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July 2019
Title: Realidad aumentada en ejército estadounidense, con sello tico
Venue: Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Link
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September 2018
Title: Purdue develops ‘augmented reality’ tools to help health care workers save lives in war zones, natural disasters, rural areas
Venue: Purdue University. Link
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