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Item DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF A SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR ENDO-NEUROSURGERY NAVIGATION SKILLS(2022-02-14) Tuner, Emre; Çağıltay, Nergiz E.The process of positioning the camera is one of difficult and error-prone skills that need to be developed for endoscopic surgery procedures. In the literature, there are very limited studies conducted to better understand the influencing factors from the instructional design perspective of computer-based surgical simulations by considering the factors such as gender and human computer interface strategies for enhancing these skills of the trainees. Main objective of this thesis is to develop a computer-based simulation software according to the requirements of the endo neurosurgery education programs in order to better understand the effect of navigation pointer and gender on surgical performance. 64 beginners for the endo-neurosurgery performed cleaning the endoscope tasks on two versions (navigation pointer integrated (NP+) and non-navigation pointer integrated (NP-)) of a computer-based surgical simulation scenario. The effect of NP+ designed to guide the participants is studied by considering the gender effect. NP+ to the endoscope by using a computer-based surgical simulation scenario significantly improved the participants’ performance to locate the endoscope. In general, male participants performed better than the females in both NP+ and NP-. For females, task-duration values are significantly lower in the NP+ than that for the NP-. The results of this study show the details of the developed system. According to the evaluation procedure of the developed system, the results show that the training modules developed for endo-neurosurgical procedures, need to consider gender differences for the beginners. NP+ strategies potentially improve beginner females’ skills on locating the endoscope and minimize the gender differences. The effect of NP+ for higher skill leveled surgical residents needs to be further researched.