Practicing of Home Nursing Activities in a VR Simulation
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https://doi.org/10.56198/b64h9437Keywords:
Immersive Learning, Case Study, Nursing at Home, Realistic InteractionsAbstract
Virtual reality has proven to be a valuable addition in the tool belt of teachers. Immersive learning environments are applied in various settings, including, but not limited to the medical and nursing domain. In this short paper we present “We care in VR”, a simulation for practicing nursing tasks for care at home, a part of nursing that is currently underrepresented in available VR applications. We investigate how realistic interactions are perceived by end users compared to consistent usage of buttons on the controllers and how they affect the ease of use of the simulation. We conduct an empirical study with 50 participants from three vocational schools of nursing and a university of applied sciences. Results suggest that our simulation already works quite well and is accepted by the target group, but still needs improvement regarding ease of use, especially for users without any previous experience with VR applications.
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