Latest Benjamin Lok Stories
2009-06-23 14:10:00
"What brings you in to see me today?""Part of my left breast has been painful for awhile.""Can you lie down so that I can examine you?"It sounds like a snippet of conversation between doctor and patient. But the doctor, in this recent exchange at the University of Florida campus, was actually an engineering doctoral student "” and the patient a "mixed reality human" composed of a life-sized computer avatar on a flat screen and a mannequin with a prosthetic breast.Intimate procedures such...
