Abstract
This paper describes a surgical simulator based on shared virtual reality technique. The simulator enables users to share virtual surgical fields over information network and to perform collaborative virtual surgery within the shared virtual space. Thus, the simulator lets any person to experience surgical simulation under the guidance of expert doctors. Consequently, the simulator may promote social understandings for clinical and surgical works. The simulator evaluated under distributed surgical training for high school students and the results indicate that an experience under the developed simulator promotes interests about the clinical and surgical works.
