Owing to the requirement of surgical senior house officers to prioritise acute admissions in the accident and emergency department, they are increasingly unable to be present in theatre to assist the surgical registrar. As a consequence, the surgeon has to rely on the scrub team to provide much-needed retraction with cases such as open appendicectomies. We have found the use of the Alexis® woun...

A plug-and-play (PaP) architecture to be applied for specification and execution of telecommunication systems functionality is presented. The architecture is based on a theatre metaphor. Plays define the functionality of the system. PaP components are realised by actors playing roles defined by manuscripts. An actor's capabilities define his possibilities for playing various roles. The usabilit...

Owing to the requirement of surgical senior house officers to prioritise acute admissions in the accident and emergency department, they are increasingly unable to be present in theatre to assist the surgical registrar. As a consequence, the surgeon has to rely on the scrub team to provide much-needed retraction with cases such as open appendicectomies. We have found the use of the Alexis® woun...

to the operation the patient is too much meddled with. After the usual dark-room examination the pa'.ient is put to bed, given a purge, the eye lashes and eye-briow shaved, an antiseptic dressing applied the night before operation. A weak solution of cocaine is used for the operation and several drops are put in the eye at intervals of ten mfinutes before the operation. The patient .is then bro...

In this paper we present an approach to applying vir tual reality in architectural design and collaborative vi sualization which emphasizes the use of multiple per spectives These perspectives including multiple men tal models as well as multiple visual viewpoints allow virtual reality to be applied in the earlier more cre ative phases of the design process rather than just as a walkthrough of ...