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Replicating the working environment


Trinity College’s ¤131m Bioscience Centre has recently added an anatomy dissection theatre comprising 13 workstations that replicate the full operating theatre experience for students.


realistic reconstruction of what they can expect to find in their professional life. “We have tried to recreate an operating


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theatre environment so the students would get used to the real deal,” says integrator Jones AV Director, Ingo Aicher. “The only noticeable difference here is that in a hospital’s operating rooms the doctors are in charge of the system, while at the Dublin facility at Trinity, we have provided lecturers with ‘super-user functionality’ and override rights.” The workstations are made up of an


operating table for donor bodies, surrounded by a mix of audio and visual sources. Ceiling mounted theatre lights, a 42-ins monitor, HD monitor and corresponding camera, medical grade video capture PC, ceiling mounted speakers and microphones are controlled via a Crestron touch screen linked to a


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ACH workstation is a replica of those found in a working operating theatre and provides students with a


local Crestron processor.


Unified control Each of the 13 local CP2E processors relay to the heart of the Crestron Star network – an AV2 control system that combines with the video hub, media matrix, VC kit and scalers. Although a number of independent sources are working, at the stations the control of these (lights, displays, capture PC, mics) are unified on a touch screen and two further iPads which include the super- user functions. Via the touch screen students are able to connect to the lecturers’ workstation and use their live video feeds to ask questions. From here, lecturers can answer in a private two-way dialogue or send content to other workstations for a multi-point conference. With the integrated iPad control,


lecturers can override students at their workstations and also route images and


video to other monitors in the space. With the VC kit in the rack, there is also the option for remote teaching. In operating theatre environments, the


use of latex gloves can reduce the ability of the operator to be exact with the touch and thus requires larger than usual touch screen buttons, while physical space remaining a premium. “In order to deliver a system which has


plenty of I/O and control functions, we could not simply deliver a control system


live video feeds allow users to ask questions


where we cram a lot of buttons onto a single page,” says Ingo Aicher. “Therefore, we developed a drill down style menu, which people are familiar with since the dawn of the iPod, and fine-tuned it to


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