Developing Virtual Patients with VR/AR for a Natural User Interface in Medical Teaching Exploring Enhancements to Presence and Empathetic Communication

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作者：

Zielke, Marjorie A. ^{[1
]}

Zakhidov, Akhangir ^{[1
]}

Hardee, Gary ^{[1
]}

Evans, Leonard ^{[1
]}

Lenox, Sean ^{[1
]}

Orr, Nick ^{[1
]}

Fino, Dylan ^{[1
]}

Mathialagan, Gautham ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Texas Richardson, Ctr Modeling & Simulat, Virtual Humans & Synthet Soc Lab, Richardson, TX 75080 USA

来源：

2017 IEEE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERIOUS GAMES AND APPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH (SEGAH) | 2017年

关键词：

virtual patients; virtual reality; augmented reality; natural interface; natural language processing; HoloLens;

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R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];

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摘要：

Professionalism and communication skills are important aspects of medical training, and virtual patient applications can offer cost effective, easily accessible platforms for communication practice which complement flexible, student-driven medical school curriculum design. Further, numerous virtual and augmented reality platforms have been introduced recently. This paper explores potential advantages and disadvantages Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) technologies offer to the development of a virtual patient application specifically for communication practice-the Emotive Virtual Patients - with a natural user interface. VR/AR technologies may offer highly interactive, immersive virtual patient experiences that tie to our research goals, improve presence and create a more fertile environment to practice empathy, however they may also present platform-specific challenges. A potential virtual patient design framework is discussed, and the unique benefits and limitations of VR/AR devices are analyzed. We put our research in the context of other virtual patient research, and hypothesize what benefits in terms of presence and natural user interfaces VR/AR may provide.

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