Integração da interface phantom ao sistema tutor inteligente para o ambiente de simulação médica

Abstract

The present study describes an analysis of the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in Intelligent Tutorial Systems (ITS), aiming to show the cooperation between the two areas. Consequently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) theories contributed to the structuring of interactive teaching environments with the best ITS and VR practices, among these: easy access, individualized teaching, refined, modeled and selected content, an intuitive, immersive, interactive environment, particularly the integration of the Phantom robot in a 3D environment and its relationship to the ontology of the project. A case study was completed for undergraduates majoring in health, in the area of cranial-skeletal anatomy. The prototype and proposed architecture validation process was supported by professors and a group of 120 students from UCB and UnB in the area of health. As the majors had distinct characteristics, the validation was divided into two groups with qualified proposals. Group A was responsible for the validation of the architecture/technology and consisted of the medical students in their 1st semester of anatomy from both of the institutions. Group B was used for the validation of concept/content and consisted of students in nursing, and biomedicine, also in their 1 st semester of anatomy, under the supervision of the same professor, and undergoing the same evaluation process. The students in biomedicine had access to the system, while the nursing students had conventional teaching methods, without access to the Medical Simulation Platform (MSP). The objective was to verify if the use of the MSP, as it was implemented, contributed to the teaching of human anatomy. The learning process was allocated in the work as a possibility of expansion of the architecture and evolution of this work, adding an artificial neural network between the interaction of the student and the type of content to be solicited from the ontology. Through an on-line questionnaire, administered with the help of a health expert, the MSP presented satisfactory results.